Agreement Quote by Catherine Wilson

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“Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed.”

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A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

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Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.

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We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

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There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving…

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Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and…

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For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which…

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Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics and anti-theology dismayed him. His 'monadology' which said that the true atoms of nature were unextended 'living mirrors,' was an imaginative and beautiful system, and even in many ways more modern than Epicurean atomism, than Epicurean…

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I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers…

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The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

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We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is…

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Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the…

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Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In…

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Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

Hermann Hesse

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There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

Jimmy Carter

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Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations…

Pierre-Paul Grasse

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of…

John Hume

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Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

M. John Harrison

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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have…

Paddy Ashdown

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Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

David Suzuki

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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close…

Rand Paul

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Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we…

Ken Wilber

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

Chrystia Freeland

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At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why,…

Rush Limbaugh