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“The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!”

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On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

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We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper…

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The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices…

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I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating…

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Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

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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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Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of…

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One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

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“Eschew evil and it`s machinations.”

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