Consciousness Quote by Dale Jamieson

“If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.” quote by Dale Jamieson — Download Open image

“If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.”

Dale Jamieson

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In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

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Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

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Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

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