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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…
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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
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If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize…
— Jimmy Carter
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative…
— Hannah Arendt
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Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the…
— Jeffrey St. Clair
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To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger…
— Nelson Mandela
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding…
— Terence McKenna
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When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person…
— Bob DeMarco
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