Simon Blackburn cytaty

Simon Blackburn – brytyjski filozof, profesor Uniwersytetu w Cambridge, Uniwersytetu Oksfordzkiego i Uniwersytetu Karoliny Północnej w Chapel Hill. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Lipiec 1944
Simon Blackburn Fotografia
Simon Blackburn: 32   Cytaty 0   Polubień

Simon Blackburn słynne cytaty

„Kłopot z życiem polega na tym, że ma ono zbyt wiele sensu.”

Źródło: Sens dobra. Wprowadzenie do etyki, tłum. Tadeusz Chawziuk, Poznań 2002, s. 121.

Simon Blackburn: Cytaty po angielsku

“Chance is as relentless as necessity.”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 85

“We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable… We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience … Ethics is disturbing.”

Kontekst: We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience... Ethics is disturbing. We are often vaguely uncomfortable when we think of such things as exploitation of the world's resources, or the way our comforts are provided by the miserable labour conditions of the third world... Racists and sexists, like antebellum slave owners in America, always have to tell themselves a story that justifies their system.

Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)

“Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 227

“There was content, but no container.”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 135

“Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Seven, The World, p. 244

“Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 105

“Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 190

“Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 231

“Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 84

“What underlies our assignment of probabilities in the real world?”

Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 212