“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.” HumansReasonPhilosophyHelpingPoliticalNaturalStudyDangerSucceedDemandMajorsPrejudiceMethodLocalsBiasPolitical Philosophy Author:Raymond Geuss
“Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.” WorldArtBookPhilosophyBodyOrderLiteratureFeltLeaderPracticeStudentsDisciplineMajorsAppreciateMethodDepthPracticalsTherapyContributionIntroducingGroundedInnateTherapistsProvocativeBreadthContemplativeArt Therapy Author:Shaun McNiff
“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.” WayKindSaidPhilosophyMightStuffViewsBrainBloodMajorsFunctionPhilosophicalFoundationBonesAcknowledgeMusclesRecognizingKidneysGlands Author:Homer Smith
“Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand the truths of the faith and you come up with theology. Where as, Islam at a certain point said: we'll use law. There are these four major, developed schools of Islamic jurisprudence.” KindSaidPhilosophyUseSchoolLawUsedCertainUnderstandingFourMajorsTraditionToolsIslamWesternCome UpTheologyIslamicJurisprudence Author:Francis George
“I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.” WorldWayWritingLooksChildrenDoeBookIdeasPhilosophyStoriesChoicesMoralHeardFansInvolvedMajorsAdultsCardsThemeGet InvolvedPhilipRight Choices Author:Daniel Craig
“My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.” PhilosophyUsedWifeProveMajorsPhilosophicalYeahDiscussionExesEx WifeNyuDeep Philosophical Author:Woody Allen
“I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.” KnowsPhilosophyProveMajorsProve It Author:Arj Barker
“Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?” IfsMenShouldHas BeensPhilosophyIndividualBeliefSocialViewsResponsibilityMoralBehaviorMajorsResponsibleClimateFactorsDeclineSubmitDominantSocial ResponsibilityIndividual Responsibility Book:Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest
“When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?” ThinkingLongStatesPhilosophySchoolFourReadyMajorsLong TimeUniversalUniversityEightyLong Time AgoSystematicBrooks Author:Richard Meltzer
“When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite by chance, I took a philosophy of science course in which the entire semester was devoted to reading Locke's Essay. I was hooked. For the next few semesters, I took nothing but philosophy and math courses, and it wasn't long before I realised that it was the philosophy that really moved me.” LongPhilosophyCoursesReadingNextChanceCollegeMajorsDecidedMovedMathDevotedEssaysRealisedHookedSigningPhilosophy Of ScienceSemesterSigning Up Author:Hilary Kornblith