Źródło: Sens dobra. Wprowadzenie do etyki, tłum. Tadeusz Chawziuk, Poznań 2002, s. 151.
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.
Źródło: Sens dobra. Wprowadzenie do etyki, tłum. Tadeusz Chawziuk, Poznań 2002, s. 81.
Simon Blackburn: Cytaty po angielsku
“Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.”
Introduction, p. 11
Think (1999)
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)
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 136
“Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.”
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 227
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 162
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 146
“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
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 225
“Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.”
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 231
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 106
“But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.”
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 173
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 170
“Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?”
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 84
“The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.”
Introduction, p. 1
Think (1999)
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 270
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 169
“What underlies our assignment of probabilities in the real world?”
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 212
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 278-279
Źródło: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 117