Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

lot-individual-action-environmental-questions-really-form-politics-way

I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating with political leaders, much in the same way that acts of civil disobedience during the civil rights' movement were really acts of political communication, trying to get laws changed rather than based on the thought that the individual action would really change the practices of segregation.

Dale Jamieson's Popular Quotes

None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral principles, o…

- Dale Jamieson

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power …

- Dale Jamieson

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally qu…

- Dale Jamieson

People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will sti…

- Dale Jamieson

Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they …

- Dale Jamieson

Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kin…

- Dale Jamieson

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

- Dale Jamieson

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all ve…

- Dale Jamieson

Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to su…

- Dale Jamieson