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"Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying "Hate if you Love Jesus", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right."
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Simon BlackburnWe can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained kn — Simon Blackburn
"We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste."
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Simon Walter Blackburn is an English philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. More recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts to popularise philosophy. He has appeared in multiple episodes of the documentary series Closer to Truth. During his long career, he has taught at Oxford University, Cambridge Uni
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"Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation."
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"According to Confucianism, the ideal life contains a large dose of respect for traditional ways. All these ideals can be fleshed out and painted in more or less attractive colours. Yet there is something uncomfortable about them, if only because there is little reason to suppose that there is any such thing as the ideal life. Since different people have different tastes and interests, and different cultures encourage different concerns, it seems unlikely that any ideal life will be heavily contextualized: ideal for this person in these circumstances, perhaps, but not much more."
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"Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?"
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"The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird."
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"Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up."
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