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The Ancient Greek Heraclitus is said to have said "You can't stand in the same river twice" Everything always changes. Tomorrow won't be like today. Move on. (Which gives little comfort to the ultra poor trapped in drudgery and hardship.) But we must start somewhere and this looks as good as any.

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"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong" Jeremy Bentham 1648-1832 Another who spoke to normal people. How are we doing these last few days?

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A quote "Philosophy is not an empirical enterprise. Its traditional claim is to be a form of knowledge about reality, even though it does not rely on observation about that reality. " A confession?

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Three quotes above. Two from when philosophers spoke to normal people. One from recently when they don't.

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Philosophy Alain Badiou Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. Huh?

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Philosophy A quote from David Hume A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

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