"Philosophy is at its most engaged when it……" — Julian Baggini
"Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else."
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110 Quotes by Julian Baggini
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