Rebecca Goldstein Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

• If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Attitude, Work Out, Understanding

  Source: bigthink.com

• If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophical, Views, Intuition

• It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Progress, Said

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

• When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Ideas, People, Progress

• Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Progress, Systematic

• Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the changes. We don't see these changes, because we see with them.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophical, Track, Progress

• I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religion. I think religion has been pulled along by reason and that's why we read The Bible now so differently, even believers.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Believe, Thinking, Progress

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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