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.
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consolin… - Simon Blackburn
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consolin…
- Simon Blackburn
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ? - Simon Blackburn
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by t… - Simon Blackburn
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by t…
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything. - Simon Blackburn
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility. - Simon Blackburn
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird. - Simon Blackburn
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, … - Simon Blackburn
Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, …
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sph… - Simon Blackburn
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sph…
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. - Simon Blackburn
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.
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