domingo, janeiro 20, 2013
Simples, como devia ser
Beveridge's 1942 report became the cornerstone of the UK's welfare state; it "...was guided by 3 principles; a determination to be radical; an attack on the five giants of ‘want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness’; and a commitment to co-operation between the state and the individual".
in www.participle.net/
sábado, janeiro 19, 2013
Morrer e viver
To philosophize is to learn how to die.
Cicero
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Cicero
Falta de imaginação
"...the philosopher's fallacy: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into reality".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
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Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
Good = is
"...you have to believe that the actual world [...] is the sort of reality that abstract goodness would bring into being.
[...]
"...neither event causation nor agent causation can explain why there is something rather than nothing, since each presupposes the existence of something.
[...]
As long as the world around us contributes at least a little net value to this infinite reality [of goodness], its existence is sanctioned by the abstract need for goodness".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
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[...]
"...neither event causation nor agent causation can explain why there is something rather than nothing, since each presupposes the existence of something.
[...]
As long as the world around us contributes at least a little net value to this infinite reality [of goodness], its existence is sanctioned by the abstract need for goodness".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
0
"From a physical point of view [...] the universe doesn't seem to cost anything: it's total energy, when the negative gravitational energy is balanced against the positive energy locked up in matter, is zero".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
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Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
Perceber
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy".
Steven Weinberg
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Steven Weinberg
É preciso religião
""With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion".
Steven Weinberg
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But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion".
Steven Weinberg
Como qualquer deus
"Like a good parent, he'll be torn between interfering too much and interfering too little".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
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Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
Infinito
"Newton's theory of gravitation [...] postulates that every particle in the universe has one power and one liability. The power is to exert gravitational force, and the liability is to be subject to it.
And the power is an infinite one: each particle influences every other particle in the universe, no matter how far away [...]
It's considered quite proper in science to attribute omni-properties to very simple kinds of objects".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
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And the power is an infinite one: each particle influences every other particle in the universe, no matter how far away [...]
It's considered quite proper in science to attribute omni-properties to very simple kinds of objects".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
Simples
"Why should we think that the simple is ontologically more likely to be true?".
Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
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Why does the world exist?, Jim Holt
Nada
"Treating 'nothing' as the name of a thing allows one to generate endless paradoxical twaddle..."
Why does the word exist?, Jim Holt
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Why does the word exist?, Jim Holt
terça-feira, janeiro 15, 2013
Convém fazer
Nós somos o que fazemos. O que não se faz não existe. Portanto, só existimos nos dias em que fazemos. Nos dias em que não fazemos, apenas duramos.
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Padre António Vieira
