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Issue 42, 3rd quarter 2008
Are the Lights Still On?

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Julian Baggini

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Luciano Floridi

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Joseph Chandler

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Children need to know there is this subject and they need to know what it is. There’s no reason why philosophy as a subject in itself can’t be taught in schools, and I think it should be.
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Ophelia Benson

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Roger Scruton

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The danger is that people will just get lost in a morass of addictive pleasures and not ask themselves the questions about the meaning of their own lives and not make the effort to make themselves interesting to others, so that human relations begin to crumble. I think we’re actually seeing that. If you look round the society in which we are, it’s not in a happy state.
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Roy Sorensen

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The tower of language overshadows a cluster of smaller towers. These are the towers corresponding to the sensory systems. Tallest among this group is the tower of vision, “the master sense”.
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Mathew Iredale

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Havi Carel

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More people desperately require an organ than become donors themselves. When discussing organ donation, people mainly consider the question whether they want to donate, whereas empirically they are more likely to be on the receiving end. So it is rational for each of us to join the organ donor register and to agree to donate our relative’s organs, if we are ever in that situation.
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Mark Montebello

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Gordon Rugg

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The assumption in traditional philosophy of knowledge, of the rational actor completely aware of their own knowledge and actions, was undermined by Freud, and then demolished by researchers in a variety of fields. Several decades of research into decision-making have shown that classical philosophy of knowledge used a simplistic set of assumptions which were inadequate to handle the realities of decision making in non-trivial problems.
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Paul Bishop

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Despite his banishment from the philosophy shelves in bookshops, Jung’s thought represents, in fact, a highly sophisticated philosophical position. Maybe it’s time we began to take Jung seriously as a philosopher.

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Ophelia Benson, Dan Hind

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Most writers who invoke the concept of Enlightenment situate it on one side of a titanic clash between the forces of light (good) and the forces of darkness (bad). This “great divide” between reason and unreason generates and gives colour to a varied and influential rhetoric.
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Frank Furedi

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Today’s cultural imagination has little room for the idea of the history-making potential of humanity. On the contrary there has been a fundamental shift towards a world view where people are almost entirely written out of history. There has never been a time since the Middle Ages where the human species has been accorded such an insignificant status in the making of history.
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Ziauddin Sardar

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One cannot have a revolt on behalf of reason in Islam because reason is central to its worldview: reason is the other side of revelation and the Qur’an presents both as “signs of God”. A Muslim society cannot function without either.
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John Haldane

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It is now commonplace to observe that the Scottish enlightenment had an effect on the political and educational institutions of North America, including the Constitution of the United States and early colleges such as Princeton. Less well known is its influence on reforming movements in continental Europe, particularly in France and Spain.
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Craig Nelson

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When Henry Adams became one of the forty million marveling at the eighty thousand exhibits of the 1900 Paris Exhibition – a Disneyland of engineering – he came to believe that, as the Virgin Mary had once inspired the great leap forward represented by Mont St Michel and Chartres, so technology would transform modern civilization, and so it has.
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Brian O'Connor

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The belief in progress is now seen as the naïveté of those who really did not know, or want to know, how terrible we human beings can be. We regard ourselves as somewhat wiser and more honest about the self-destructive capabilities of human beings and can find only reasons to turn away from the idea of progress.