Ernest Sosa Quotes

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Accept

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

• Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Work
  • Ethics

• A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Good
  • Religion

• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Ethics

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life - it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Virtue
  • Concerned
  • Prefer

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Believe
  • Dream
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• Ethics in government has always been important to me.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • Important
  • Ethics

• Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • People
  • Ethics

• The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • House
  • Ethics

• The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

  

  Bille August
  • Study
  • Ethics

• And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

  

  Plato
  • Friendship
  • Youth
  • Intimacy

• Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

  

  Alexander Wilson
  • Idea
  • Own
  • Known

• I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

  

  William Landay
  • Book
  • Sports
  • Seems

• We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Men
  • Missiles

• Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Virtue
  • Ethics
  • Epistemology