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“If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.”

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Morris Raphael Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen was a prominent American philosopher known for his contributions to logic, ethics, and political philosophy. His thoughts were deeply influenced by the German philosophical tradition, particularly the systems of Kant and Hegel. Cohen's works covered a wide range of topics, including freedom, justice, democracy, and epistemology. more

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“It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.”

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“Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.”

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“Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.”

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“Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.”

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“From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.”

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Book:The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization

Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization

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“Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.”

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“One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period – the centuries that is, before Constantine, and two after, determine the boundary of our faith.”

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