In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I am….
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis..
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical..
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: F….
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers..
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved..
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too..
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside sci….
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due..
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else..
The good of the people is the greatest law..
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some real sympathy with t….
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience..
Thrift is of great revenue..
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent..
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free..
Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are a….
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalis….
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error..
The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that….
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them..