Reading a philosophy book, figured id post up some quotes from the book and anything it leads me to read. I recently attended a few philosophy lectures and i think it was honestly the greatest academic experience of my life.
The power of logical deduction, critical thinking and mental exploration are amazing. I really enjoyed it. I think that had I been born a few hundred years ago I would have been similar to Socrates. .. a heretic B-) .
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Delight in Thinking- S Hales, S Lowe.
On Moral Philosophy:
D> Ethical egoism: the idea thay each person ought to pursue his or her own self interest exclusively.
D> Psychological egoism: a theory of human nature that is concerned with how people DO behave, not how they should.
Q> "Men lose their high aspirstions as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying...."
Q>" As philosophers we want good reason for our beliefs and we ought to approach religious claims in the same spirit of skeptical, critical inquiry as we would claims of the supernatural occult. "
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