Not exact matches
You were an incomparable force
of nature — because your
intellectual talent was accompanied with a huge heart, unyielding passion, and a love
of life and
humanity.
Martha Nussbaum, one
of America's leading public
intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective
lives, particularly in the law.The book that got it all started was Hiding from
Humanity: Disgust,....
When someone lacks the
intellectual ability to apply critical thinking to ALL aspects
of life, religious included, then
Humanity as a whole is one step further behind in acheiving practical solutions to our problems.
By positing the protagonist's experience as a moral dilemma that forces him to choose between ruthless self - interest (in terms
of both himself and his family) and a greater humanitarian concern for the
lives and safety
of strangers / the rest
of humanity, the movie tries to fake an
intellectual and philosophical dimension it does not genuinely possess.
Plainly, what is necessary now is
intellectual honesty and courage as well as a willingness to begin «centering» the attention
of the leaders
of the human community on the threat to
humanity,
life as we know it, the environment and the integrity
of Earth that is posed by the gigantic scale and patently unsustainable growth rate
of the human population worldwide.