Quotes by Mario Bunge

Mario Bunge

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

Belief

Racism

States

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

Ideas

Painful

Religious

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

Boundaries

Patriotic

Philosophy

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

Hypocrite

Joining

Liars

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Communication

Serious

Study

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Collaboration

Communication

Fighting

Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.

Ideas

Independent

Roots

Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.

Philosophy

Political

Pseudoscience

Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of “our” side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.

Political

Racism

War

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Historical

Political

Tools

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Baby

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Boundaries

Brain

Chaos

Children

Collaboration

Communication

Community

Conservative

Courses

Criticism

Democracy

Deviants

Duty

Enlightenment

Example

Fighting

Free Education

Free Yourself

Giving

Goal

Groups

Helping

Historical

Hobbies

Holiday

Hypocrite

Ice

Ideas

Ignorant

Important

Independent

Jobs

Joining

Justice

Knows

Law

Legal System

Liars

Light

Media

Mind

Moral

Mother

Motto

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Quotes by Mario Bunge

Mario Bunge

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

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