“So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections. A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.” — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church that one… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
