Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
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
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they … - Dale Jamieson
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they …
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
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…
I'm a subjectivist about morality. - Dale Jamieson
I'm a subjectivist about morality.
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
A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all ve…
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
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…
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