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“Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.”

Doe Stills Philosophy Walks Circles Tendencies Latter

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.”

Men May Doe Stills Real Philosophy Lying He Man Cold Faults Former Aliens Latter Assured

Book:The Logic of Hegel

Source: The Logic of Hegel

“Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.”

Ifs Soul Philosophy Courses Causes Common Existence Ought Birth Concerned Supreme Former Immortality Reasoning Latter Immortal Excluded Supposing

Book:The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition

Source: The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition

“Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.”

Philosophy Political Economic Movement Theory Easier Former Latter Criticize Psychoanalysis Pseudoscience Milton Jung Political Movements Hayek Economic Theory Friedrich Hayek Microeconomics

Author:Mario Bunge

“Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.”

Thinking Philosophy Facts Former Latter

Author:Allen W. Wood

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