9 quotes found
Writer · British
British writer
“There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.”
“As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.”
“Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.”
“Moral questions may not have objective answerswhether revealed by God or by sciencebut they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality ...”
“Humans are, as Sartre put it, condemned to be free. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.”
“To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our worlda...”
“Insofar as it is true, the idea that our actions or beliefs are merely one link in a causal link that runs back to the beginning of the universe is making a trivial claim. Insofar as it is saying s...”
“Moral questions may not have objective answers—whether revealed by God or by science—but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationalit...”
“Humans are, as Sartre put it, ‘condemned to be free’. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.”
