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“That obsession with impact is an infection and it’s getting worse.
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
quando uma burocracia insere um rótulo em você, esse rótulo, mesmo que mera convenção, ainda assim pode determinar seu destino. Isso vale quer o burocrata seja um especialista em animais, um especialista em seres humanos ou uma ia inorgânica.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: Uma breve história das redes de informação, da Idade da Pedra à inteligência artificial (Portuguese Edition)
Most philosophers since Descartes have attached importance to the theory of knowledge, and their doing so is largely due to him. “I think, therefore I am” makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
American readers of Scottish moral philosophy were searching for more than intellectual stimulation or interpretive conclusions about morality. They were searching for moral instruction that was independent of theology, but supportive of religion; scientifically derived, and straightforwardly practicable.139 This earnest desire for moral improvemen
... See moreGlory M. Liu • Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
The great worry, of course, is that an honest discussion of the underlying causes of human behavior appears to leave no room for moral responsibility.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Where is the freedom in being perfectly satisfied with your thoughts, intentions, and subsequent actions when they are the product of prior events that you had absolutely no hand in creating?
Sam Harris • Free Will
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.