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“There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility”

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David Buss

David Buss is a renowned evolutionary psychologist, born on April 14, 1953. His research in the field of human behavior and evolutionary psychology has had a profound impact, particularly in the areas of sexual selection and mate choice. more

“There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation”

“The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community”

Problem Individual Interest Community Greater Duty Economics Starting Ideology Greater Good

Author:Tony Blair

“The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.”

Source: Tony Blair in His Own Words

“The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered”

Way Needs Individual Vision Citizens Economics Meetings Reform Continuing Public Service

Book:Speeches, 1997-2006

Source: Speeches, 1997-2006

“The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements”

Law Individual Parent Understanding Citizens Economics Patient Driven Reform Labour Requirements Centre Abiding Public Service Pupils Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Tony Blair

“For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.”

Law Order Powerful Moral Creatures Economics Fellows Instinct Absence Invention Acquire Superiority Unjust Cunning Unnatural Validity

Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb

“It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid”

Men Turns Plans Magic Economic Building Habit Illusion Economics Bottom Forgotten Unhappy Pyramids

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process”

Purpose Causes Process Evolution Economics Finals Instruction Selection

Author:Gerald Edelman

“Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism”

People Consciousness Economics Essence Mechanism

Author:John Searle

“Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality”

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