At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.
Mark LynasTags: science ecology pragmatism chernobyl
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.
John DeweyTags: pragmatism habit empiricism cultivated-naivete
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
Adam PhillipsTags: heroes pragmatism
The notion of God, on the other hand, however inferior it may be in clearness to those mathematical notions so current in mechanical philosophy, has at least this practical superiority over them, that it guarantees an ideal order that shall be permanently preserved.
William JamesTags: pragmatism
ففي المسائل الأخلاقية التى نبحث فيها الآن,ترى هذه الفلسفة أن الشعور العميق بالواجب,هذا الأحساس الملزم الذي نحس به تجاه الأمور الأخلاقية,إنما هو نتيجة تقلبات الحياة.ليس هذا الشعور الموجود فينا منبعثاً عن اتصال خفي أو غير خفي بيننا وبين عالم مجهول,وانما هو قد انبنى حجرا على حجرا على مر السنين في الجنس الأنساني,والواقع أن هذه النظرية لاتنطبق على الأخلاق دون سواها,بل تنطبق كذلك على الحق نفسه,فليس للحق وجود مستكمل منذ الأزل,وانما هو يتكون وينبي,وهو في طريق الوجودالآن,انه ينمو,ويترعرع
يعقوب فامTags: pragmatism
Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.
James A. HaughtTags: atheism atheist deity pragmatism a-j-ayer aj-ayer ayer
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilization which they have represented.
Josiah RoyceTags: philosophy pragmatism
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