Ethicist

Socrates

Literature

-469–-398

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

🇫🇷Emmanuel Levinas

Philosophy

Existentialism

1906–1995

"To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods."

🇺🇸Murray Bookchin

Literature

Anarchism

1921–2006

"The Inclusive Democracy project and Social Ecology by Takis Fotopoulos, The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, vol.1, no.3,"

"The cost-benefit approach treats people as of equal worth because it treats them as of no worth, but only as places or channels at which willingness to pay is found."

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Philosophy

1707–1746

"Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found."

🇺🇸Shelly Kagan

Ethics

b. 1956

"The objection that consequentialism demands too much is accepted uncritically by almost all of us."

🇺🇸R. R. Reno

Philosophy

b. 1959

"One could rightly say that I became a Catholic by default, and that possibility is the simple gift I received from the Catholic Church. Mater ecclesia, she needed neither reasons, nor theories, nor ideas from me."

🇬🇧Mary Midgley

Literature

1919–2018

"Arguments can always be answered. Moral philosophy, unlike straight moralizing, arises from and trives on plurality of values."