The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.

Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.