The pig that wants to be eaten: and ninety-nine other thought experiments / Julian Baggini
By: Julian Baggini
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author presents 100 thought experiments which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and i…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Imagination without reason is mere fancy, but reason without imagination is sterile."-Julian Baggini, The pig that wants to be eaten: and ninety-nine other thought experiments / Julian Baggini
"Imagination without reason is mere fancy, but reason without imagination is sterile."-Julian Baggini, The pig that wants to be eaten: and ninety-nine other thought experiments / Julian Baggini
"Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can indure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be fount - in experiencing them."-Julian Baggini, The pig that wants to be eaten: and ninety-nine other thought experiments / Julian Baggini
"Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can indure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be fount - in experiencing them."-Julian Baggini, The pig that wants to be eaten: and ninety-nine other thought experiments / Julian Baggini
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