Active Quote by Iris Murdoch

Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.

— Frederick Lenz

“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.”

— George Dennison

One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view, a critic…

— Robert Audi

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he…

— Charles Grandison Finney

The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action…

— Herbert Marcuse

“We need to return from the self-centred concept of sincerity to the other-centred concept of truth. We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of…

— Iris Murdoch

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

— Michael Shermer

If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't…

— Thomas Pogge

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we…

— Kathryn Schulz

“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself a final…

— Joseph Conrad

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

— J. I. Packer

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a…

— Daniel Dennett