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The quotation, oft repeated comes from the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. It has be much repeated and sometimes disputed. What is your view of the importance of understanding...
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I borrow part of a blog text on Niebuhr, which strikes me as very accurate: Niebuhr, Reinhold - Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics Introduction In the introduction to...
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Doing some background reading in Einstein, I came across the following quotation which inspired this question: Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on...
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No doubt we are all aware of a vast pluralism of social and cultural differences, both at home and around the world. What is wrong with relativism, I submit, is that it fails to take such...
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