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“(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)”
“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.”
“Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice.”
“Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isnt just for registering pleasure and pain. Its about declaring what is just an...”
“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by ...”
“If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a poli...”