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Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Brazil
China
Fewer
People
No Future
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I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Men
Charm
Country
Regard
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The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Life Is
Supreme
Vitality
Life Good Always
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The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.
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Scientist
Should
Solve
Treasure
Explain
Outset
Riddles
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In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Anticipation
Discrete
Political
Solutions
Views
Vision
Direction
Problems
View
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At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Future
Imagination
Vision
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When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Devalue
Imagine
Just One
Trying
World
Explain
Multitude
Worlds
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Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.
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Existence
Insatiable
Urgent
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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Democracy
Deserving
Differences
Humanity
Basis
Represent
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The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.
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Essentials
Goal
Moral
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One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Features
Form
Globalisation
Goods
Labour
Should
States
Established
Capital
Imprisoned
Premise
Remain
Roam
Striking
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The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die
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Immediacy
Self
World
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The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Opportunity
Destruction
Disorganized
Economic
Rain
Real
Activities
Set
Economic Opportunities
Forest
Further
Million
Million People
Opportunities
Practical
Result
Trees
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In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Born
Democracy
Division
Emancipation
Fire
Hierarchy
Humanity
Projects
Puppets
Social
Great Humanity World
Cultures
Set
Entrenched
Individuals
Societies
Prisoners
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Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.
Roberto Unger / Philosopher
Caring
People
Responsibility
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