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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
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Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that…
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I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
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equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring…
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single…
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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the…
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,…
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Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the…
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The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is…
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary…
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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
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