Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Peter Unger
Born: April 25, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Peter K. Unger is a contemporary American philosopher and professor at New York University. His main interests lie in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of mind.
Known for:
- Living High and Letting Die (1996)
- All the power in the world (2005)
- Identity, consciousness, and value (1990)
- Philosophical relativity (1984)
- Achieving Laboratory Accreditation (1992)