Philosophers Are Adults Who Persist In Asking

The Case Against The Notion Of Historical Objectivity Is Like The Case Against International Law, Or International Morality; That It Does Not Exist.

Both Liberty And Equality Are Among The Primary Goals Pursued By Human Beings Throughout Many Centuries; But Total Liberty For Wolves Is Death To The Lambs, Total Liberty Of The Powerful, The Gifted, Is Not Compatible With The Rights To A Decent Existence Of The Weak And The Less Gifted.

The Fundamental Sense Of Freedom Is Freedom From Chains, From Imprisonment, From Enslavement By Others. The Rest Is Extension Of This Sense, Or Else Metaphor.

Few Things Have Done More Harm Than The Belief On The Part Of Individuals Or Groups (or Tribes Or States Or Nations Or Churches) That He Or She Or They Are In Sole Possession Of The Truth: Especially About How To Live, What To Be And Do - And That Those Who Differ From Them Are Not Merely Mistaken, But Wicked Or Mad: And Need Restraining Or Suppressing.

The History Of Society Is The History Of The Inventive Labors That Man Alter Man, Alter His Desires, Habits, Outlook, Relationships Both To Other Men And To Physical Nature, With Which Man Is In Perpetual Physical And Technological Metabolism.