Seeking Meaning and Making Sense

Thus, you or I might tolerate economic and social inequalities related to ability and achievement, but only if provision is made for the disadvantaged. After all, we might be fortunate, but equally we might not be

ust as for Hume morality lies in the human mind, not in a world of moral facts; so our beliefs about the world itself are human conjectures fashioned on the basis of impressions of colour, shape, sound, odour, taste and texture. Hume’s account of knowledge as based in experience is in the tradition of British empiricism, but Hume was much more radical than had been John Locke in the previous century

At best reason is the organisation of desires; all it can do is co-ordinate preferences and work out means to their satisfaction

Marx wrote that ‘the various philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; what matters is to change it’