Rationalism Explorer Gifts

Descartes's Demon

Henri Bergson

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

Fear/Knowledge

"Um, I notice there's nothing in here about pork."

'Wow! -- Talk about a paradigm shift!'

"This may surprise some of your viewers, but I didn't actually want to go into the box."

'You won't believe this, but even if the vaccine works, they wont give it to other sick mice.'

'Is there an E-Reader Edition?'

'You're in luck. Business ethics is a gray area.'

Einstein discovers that time can stop completely.

Roger feels that there are only two inante instincts in men and women. One is satisfaction of biological needs...the other is self-actualization.

"Yes, but you were the defender of the wrong faith."

From what I hear, the Atwood Intuition Tank is coming up with results faster than we are.

'Marx and Engels - why they split.'

'Just think of one of these as enabling legislation for the golden rule.'

The Truth

'Yep, that does sound like an ethical dilemma, Phil. But relax... it's only a problem if you have a conscience.' 'That's just it! I think I do!!' 'Don't worry, I won't tell a soul.'

Ethics ethics.

'I find it harder and harder to get any work done with all the ethicists hanging around.'

'The economy today got a boost from Alan Greenspan, who said it's O.K. to be irrationally exuberant.'

'I look only for the good in everyone...but I only ever find it in myself.'

'Thoreau, doing research on chapter 7'

'A doctor in the hospital's basement agonizes over the ethics of pulling the plug its ailing furnace.'

"If you want my opinion you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."

'Sorry - I only donate big.'

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

"I just completely disagree with what you just said about America lacking focus."

"Just my luck."

Religion & Economics.

Does Christianity have the monopoly on morality?