"The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Dale Jamieson

#Clever Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Smart Quotes

“For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.”

Source : Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.77
“I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.”
“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Secret Garden”, p.207, Trajectory Inc
“Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I donâ€™t know how people who engage in that donâ€™t commit suicide.”

Source : "NAMA makes £150m on London deal" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.
“It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.”
“I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.”
“It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.”
“We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.”

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