The Way Things Are Does Not Determine

It's Possible To Make Sense Of What's Morally At Stake In An Appreciation Of The Gift Of Life, Or The Gift Of A Child, Without Necessarily Presupposing That There Is A Giver. What Matters Is That The Gift - In This Case, The Child - Not Be Wholly Our Own Doing, Our Own Product.

I Almost Became A Political Journalist, Having Worked As A Reporter At The Time Of Watergate. The Proximity To Those Events Motivated Me, When I Wound Up Doing Philosophy, To Try To Use It To Move The Public Debate.

Economics Has Increasingly Become The Science Of Human Behavior In General, And It's All The More Unlikely To Think That It Can Possibly Be Value-free - And, In Fact, It Isn't. Economics Rests On Un-argued Assumptions That Need To Be Examined.

The Majority Of American States Had Laws By The 1930s That Allowed For Forced Sterilization Of Socially Undesirable Categories Of People, So-called Feeble-minded, For Example, And With Hitler Culminating In Genocide.

I Think Very Often When We Think We Are Aiming At The Best For Our Children, What We Are Really Doing Is Trying To Position Them For Competitive Success In An Intensely Driven Kind Of Society. I'm Not Sure That Always Leads To The Good Life Or To Happiness.