It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. -Stanley Fish

 

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.


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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

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We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

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In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

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It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Stanley Fish