Philosophy quotes — page 23

The greater part of modern moral philosophy derives from Sidgwick and is utilitarian or consequentialist.

Moral evil is a kind of natural defect.

Virtues are in general beneficial characteristics, and indeed ones that a human being needs to have, for his own sake and that of his fellows.

We are not free to say that just anything is the subject of a moral belief.

There is no criterion for determining what is good for a human being that is independent of the nature of the human being.

We are most of us inclined to think that a great deal of damage, and even lives lost, is better than doing murder.

Luck can intervene between a person and the living of the good human life.

The capabilities approach asks not only about people's total or average well-being but about what each person is able to do and to be.

Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature; they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature's reasoning itself.

Narrative imagination is an essential preparation for moral interaction.

She was devoted to philosophy and explained it publicly to anyone who wished to hear.

She honorably presides over the mysteries of philosophy.

There is not the slightest doubt that women belong to the people of God and the human race as much as men.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is more sharp and clever.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated.

Empathy is a kind of experiential act sui generis.

The individual is only able to find another individual as a living body and as a sensing, feeling, and willing I.

Finite being is separated from eternal being, yet every finite being points beyond itself.

The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.

A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary.

What needs to be characterized and critically examined are African ideas and beliefs… philosophy is about what people say rather than what they do.

There is nothing that is absolutely material. There is nothing that is absolutely non-material. And in all phenomenons in the world, the two are there together.

It would be ridiculous to raise the question as to whether or not Ọ̀rúnmìlà was religious. He was the leader of a religious cult which established a school structured like Plato's Academy.

Look at Christianity and Islam. They have the Bible and the Koran… Now, where is our own book on Orunmila? It is a question that should worry all rational Yoruba and African people.