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Nobody can seriously believe that free will means that it is left entirely to the will of the individual, as to an irresponsible tyrant, to do or not do whatever he pleases.
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by Konrad Lorenz Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Science and technologies)
The scientist who considers himself absolutely "objective" and believes that he can free himself from the compulsion of the "merely" subjective should try, only in imagination of course, to kill in succession a lettuce, a fly, a frog, a guineapig, a cat, a dog, and finally a chimpanzee. He will then be aware how increasingly difficult murder becomes as the victim's level of organisation rises...
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I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief, deeply rooted in our western culture, that what can be explained in terms of natural science has no values. This belief springs from an exaggeration of Kant's values-philosophy, the consequence of the idealistic dichotomy of the world into the external world of things and the internal laws of human reason.
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All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering, tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.
The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality. Under the pressure of this competitive fury we...
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
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