Lauren Southern (1995) Canadian libertarian commentator
1:30-34
2017 New Year's Resolutions for Millennials
chap. 24, sect. 82
Reasons and Persons (1984)
Lauren Southern (1995) Canadian libertarian commentator
1:30-34
2017 New Year's Resolutions for Millennials
“Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Minnesota declaration (1999)
“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
2000s
Source: [The Real Face of Atheism, 2004, 9780801065118, 3293056M, http://books.google.com/books?id=0SD0mYaYz3sC&pg=PA56&dq=%22with+no+fact%22, 56]
Hans Kelsen book Pure Theory of Law
Pure Theory of Law (revised ed., 1960), 7. Moral Norms as Social Norms
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Stephen Jay Gould book The Flamingo's Smile
"Of Wasps and WASPs", p. 160
The Flamingo's Smile (1985)
Kate Bornstein (1948) American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (1995), p. 65
William Crookes (1832–1919) British chemist and physicist
Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897)
Context: I will point out a curious, inveterate, and widespread illusion — the illusion that our earthly bodies are a kind of norm of humanity, so that ethereal bodies, if such there be, must correspond to them in shape and size.
When we take a physical view of a human being in his highest form of development, he is seen to consist essentially of a thinking brain, the brain itself, among its manifold functions, being a transformer whereby intelligent will power is enabled to react on matter. To communicate with the external world, the brain requires organs by which it can be transported from place to place, and other organs by means of which energy is supplied to replace that expended in the exercise of its own special functions.
Bernard Harcourt (1963) American academic
Source: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (2011), p. 32