Frases de John N. Gray

John N. Gray é um escritor e filósofo britânico com interesses na filosofia analítica e a história das ideias.

Ensinou Filosofia na Universidade de Oxford atualmente ensina Pensamento Europeu na London School of Economics. Escreve também regularmente para o The Guardian, o New Statesman ou o The Times Literary Supplement.

Possui diversas obras, e dos vários livros influentes que escreveu sobre teoria política, destaca-se Humanos e outros Animais ; outros dos seus livros que merecem destaque O Falso Amanhecer; Al-Qaeda e o Que Significa Ser Moderno; Cachorros de Palha; Missa Negra: Religião Apocalíptica e o Fim das Utopias , entre outras. Gray influenciou decisivamente a ascensão ao poder de Margaret Thatcher.Algumas das ideias de Gray:





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John N. Gray: Frases em inglês

“Atheists say they want a secular world, but a world defined by the absence of the Christians' god is still a Christian world. Secularism is like chastity, a condition defined by what it denies.”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

The Unsaved: Atheism, the Last Consequence of Christianity (p.126)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

“Blair has been the modern man he claims to be: for him, a sense of subjective certainty is all that is needed for an action to be right. If deception is needed to realise the providential design, it cannot be truly deceitful.”

"Neoconned!: How Blair took New Labour for a ride," http://web.archive.org/web/20090404081217/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/neoconned-how-blair-took-new-labour-for-a-ride-454209.html The Independent (2007-06-22)

“A high-tech Green utopia, in which a few humans live happily in balance with the rest of life, is scientifically feasible; but it is humanly unimaginable. If anything like it ever comes about, it will not be through the will of homo rapiens.”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Non-Progress: Yet another utopia (p. 184)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

“In the life of the academic mind, the owl of Minerva seldom flies as early as the dusk.”

'Definition of the Political Thought of Tlön' (p.91)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)

“Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth - and so be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth.”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

The Human: Truth and consequences (p. 26)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

“The mass of mankind is ruled not by its intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the needs of the moment.”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

The Human: Green Humanism (p. 17)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

“Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

As It Is: Simply To See (p.199)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

“Gamblers wager for the sake of playing. Among those who fish for pleasure, the best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most. The point of playing is that the play has no point.”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

As It Is: Playing With Fate (p. 196)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

“A 'postmodern' organisation serving 'premodern' values, Al Qaeda has planted a question mark over the very idea of what it means to be modern.”

John Gray livro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Non-Progress: Al Qaeda (p. 176)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)