Mario Bunge Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Patriotic, Boundaries

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

• Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Political, Pseudoscience

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

• Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Media, Helping

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

• In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

• I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Views, Ignorant

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

• There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Practice, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

• Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Deviants, Subversive

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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