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the philosopher is a man who loves the “vision of truth.”
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Justice is a commitment to the common good, a recognition that we are interdependent. The Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius believed that justice was “the source of all other virtues.” When we act with justice we are honest, and we take the full consequences of our actions into account. We can’t build good habits alone, and the latter part of this
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“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest... See more
Brain Food: Different Resolutions
Philosopy of Science
Rich Carlton • 6 cards
Policy-making does, however, often require Aristotelian phronesis, particularly the ability to recognize salient facts that require invoking the exception clause of a guiding picture.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Philosophy
Anna B • 2 cards
Knowledge—self-knowledge in particular—is freedom.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Throughout college, my monastic, scholarly study of human meaning would conflict with my urge to forge and strengthen the human relationships that formed that meaning.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
This emphasis on criticality is crucial: it’s the nub of Dewey’s philosophy of education. Like Locke in the 17th century, Dewey was stressing the need for the cultivation of critical thinking for the making of a fair, open-minded citizenry—one which is able to think independently to contest bad ideas and question leaders. And it is raised again and
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