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“We are here for knowledge. Our enemy is thoughtlessness. This is philosophy.”
— Damon HorowitzDamon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
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“What are you going to teach me about right and wrong? I know what is wrong. I have done wrong. I am told every day, by every face I see, every wall I face, that I am wrong.”
— Damon Horowitz quoting his student Tony, a San Quentin inmateDamon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
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“What Tony sees in that moment is the project of philosophy, the project that begins in wonder — what Kant called ‘admiration and awe at the starry sky above and the moral law within.’”
— Damon HorowitzDamon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
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“Tony learns about the ontologically promiscuous, the epistemologically anxious, the ethically dubious, the metaphysically ridiculous.”
— Damon HorowitzDamon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
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“Can you tell me what wrong is? No, don’t just give me an example. I want to know about wrongness itself, the idea of wrong.”
— Damon HorowitzDamon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
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“What makes something wrong? How do we know that it’s wrong? Maybe you and I disagree. Maybe one of us is wrong about the wrong.”
— Damon HorowitzDamon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
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