Thomas NagelThinkers

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima is an unjustified at because hostility should be directed at its true object: The people who provoke it. And one should give others the respect they deserve by doing to them only those things that they can understand to be addressed to them as people.

Consciousness is what can be said of a thing insofar as there is 'something that it is like' to be that thing. Bats, for example, are conscious because there is something that it is like for a bat to experience.

Global justice is the standards governing international interactions and basic human rights.

The Spider in the urinal is a thought experiment illustrating that no matter how undesirable things may appear from the outside, perhaps there is a rational at work.

Subjectivity is what it is like to be a thing. It is the internal, the private, and the personal.

Teleology is a top down principle (a universal law imposed on basic substances or processes).

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