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The heirs of Locke are, first Berkeley and Hume; second, those of the French philosophes who did not belong to the school of Rousseau; third, Bentham and the philosophical Radicals; fourth, with important accretions from Continental philosophy, Marx and his disciples.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
Sam Harris • Free Will
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur)
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The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
To admire a misanthrope.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
