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On What Matters (2011)
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What now matters most is that we rich people give up some of our luxuries, ceasing to overheat the Earth's atmosphere, and taking care of this planet in other ways, so that it continues to support intelligent life.
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It has been widely believed that there are such deep disagreements between Kantians, Contractualists, and Consequentialists. That, I have argued, is not true. These people are climbing the same mountain on different sides.
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Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
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No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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December 11, 1942
Died:
January 1, 2017
(aged 74)
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