When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different - Roberto Unger
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
- Roberto Unger
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capita… - Roberto Unger
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capita…
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of mora… - Roberto Unger
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of mora…
Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be… - Roberto Unger
Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be…
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals fro… - Roberto Unger
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals fro…
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. - Roberto Unger
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world … - Roberto Unger
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world …
The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…… - Roberto Unger
The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective……
Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiab… - Roberto Unger
Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiab…
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