Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions..

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior..

TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things..

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination..

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story..

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you ….

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked t….

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first….

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less p….

I think the obstacle for women is that their lives are intertwined with the lives of men. Change at the very deepest level of one's daily life and on….

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never ma….

Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger..

The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hosp….

The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered wo….

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life ….

The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thin….

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer..

Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the s….

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same tim….

Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are important because the….

The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblow….