Quotes about australian-philosopher
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It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. Peter Singer
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Thus we have to recognize that a thing as perceived contains besides sensory elements other elements present to the mind only in ideal form. Samuel Alexander
australian-philosopher character determines mental object
It is a different and independent thing, and the character of the mental act only determines how much of the object is apprehended and in what form.
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I might well have written a different book in some respects had I been writing it now. But I wouldn't really go back on things I had said.
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Some of the things that I'm trying to do are to strengthen those other forces, and give them a better chance of having some influence.
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Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.
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Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
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They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
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I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of life. The worry is that he is so certain that he know where he's going to lead the country.
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So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.
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As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.