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Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But ...

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Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore hi...

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Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically al...

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Men Are from Mars

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attemp...

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False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blosso...

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I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, ove...

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Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they f...

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Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that pro...

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The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remember...

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All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have...

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Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy ...

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In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.

Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say...

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Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Chris...

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Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We c...

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Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather ...

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John Gray (philosopher)

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Born: 1951-12-28

Died: N/A

John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer.More