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Quote by Philip Kitcher

“I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.”

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Philip Kitcher, born on February 20, 1947, is a philosopher, writer, and academic. His research interests are primarily in the fields of philosophy of science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. more

“I tend to gravitate towards the great rock-and-roll front men, the guys that are very "bare bones." I like Bono, I like Chris Martin(Coldplay) and I like the running around. I think they are amazing at it, but I think that there is something great about a guy that can captivate a room, and very little movement and running everywhere.”

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Author:Matthew Mayfield

“If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the same time, to condemn unjust practices within those cultures.”

Ifs May Different Culture Difficult Differences Practice Tolerate Unjust Cultural Differences

Author:Alison Assiter

“From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.”

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Author:Alison Assiter

“I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.”

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Author:Alison Assiter

“The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.”

Fiction Feminism Subjects Discourse Postmodern

Author:Alison Assiter

“The universal basis for the categorisation 'woman' will, no doubt, be constantly shifting but it is important not to deny it's existence altogether. There is a partly biological basis for this identification. The 'nature' of woman may be conceptualised in the early Greek sense of a force or a power, in its turn shaped by forces outside it, rather than in terms of some set of properties.”

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Author:Alison Assiter

“It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.”

Knows May Eye Perfection Reasonable Perfectionism Perfection And Imperfection

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.”

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Author:Alison Assiter

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