Two stickers, seen on the same bumper of the same van in Austin, Texas:
#1: Stop the Dissections: Have Respect for Life.
#2: Pro-Choice and Proud of It.
"Government does not rest on force. Government is force; it rests on consent or a conception of justice.” -- G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World
“Adultery is bad morals, but divorce is bad metaphysics.” -- Charles Williams
The Freudian term “sublimation” has come to be used carelessly for two relationships between high and low, relationships which are not only different but even opposite to each other. I illustrate with sex, his obsession.
Kant thought we could either give the law to ourselves, which he called autonomy, or accept a law imposed from outside, which he called heteronomy. In this view, autonomy is freedom, but heteronomy is bondage. What does the picture leave out?
