Quotes by Simon Blackburn

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A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Leaving

Moral

World

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

Essentials

Gone

Sweat

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

Chance

Chances Are

Relentless

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Culture

Responsibility

Very Good

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

Bypass

Doe

Problem

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

Best Effort

Destiny

Karma

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

Car

Men

Michigan

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

Process

Projection

World

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

Doe

Fall

Law

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying ” Hate if you Love Jesus “, but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Hate

Jesus

Religious

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Able

Absolutism

Best Effort

Bills

Bypass

Car

Chance

Chances Are

Connotation

Culture

Deny

Destiny

Determinism

Doe

Essentials

Fall

Form

Garden

Gone

Grieving

Hate

Intellectual

Jesus

Karma

Language

Law

Leaving

Machines

Maturity

May

Memories

Men

Michigan

Mind

Moral

Mountain

Nature Vs Nurture

People

Philosophical

Philosophy

Problem

Process

Projection

Relentless

Religious

Responsibility

Should

Sides

Simple

Soul

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Quotes by Simon Blackburn

Simon Blackburn

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying ” Hate if you Love Jesus “, but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

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