Corliss Lamont Quotes

• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

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• Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

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• The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

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• Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

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• I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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• The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

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• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

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• Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

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Corliss Lamont (9)

Birth:	28th March, 1902
Death:	26th April, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Philosopher, Professor, Writer

About

Corliss Lamont was born in Englewood, New Jersey. He was an American philosopher, professor and writer. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from the early 1940s. Lamont graduated as valedictorian of Phillips Exeter Academy in 1920, and magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1924. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1932 from Columbia. Lamont taught at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and the New School for Social Research. He wrote a book about the Soviet Union and praised what he saw there: "The people are better dressed, food is good and plentiful, everyone seems confident, happy and full of spirit".

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