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“Barack Obama endorsing a presidential candidate is reason enough not to vote for them.”

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“Wenn aber der Widerstreit des Glaubens und der Vernunft verschwunden und in eine Aussöhnung übergegangen ist, so würde es wesentlich von der Natur dieser Aussöhnung selbst abhängen, inwiefern zu ihr Glück zu wünschen wäre. Denn es gibt auch einen Frieden der Gleichgültigkeit gegen die Tiefen des Geistes, einen Frieden des Leichtsinns, der Kahlheit; in einem solchen Frieden kann das Widerwärtige beseitigt scheinen, indem es nur auf die Seite gestellt ist. (Vorrede zu Hinrichs' Religionsphilosophie, 1822)”

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“Reason is evolutionary, in that abstract reason builds on and makes use of forms of perceptual and motor inference present in "lower" animals. The result is a Darwinism of reason, a rational Darwinism: Reason, even in its most abstract form, makes use of, rather than transcends, our animal nature. The discovery that reason is evolutionary utterly changes our relation to other animals and changes our conception of human beings as uniquely rational. Reason is thus not an essence that separates us from other animals; rather, it places us on a continuum with them.”

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Book:Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
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