User talk:Proper Stranger/Jennifer Michael Hecht

additional references

 * http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty-list/?id=88198
 * http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/the-last-taboo-atheists-politicians-100901.html#.UyETJPldV8E — Preceding unsigned
 * Hecht and Ron Reagan on Hardball http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/12/29/hecht_hardball/

quotes
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/45673.Jennifer_Michael_Hecht "How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass."

"Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is."

"We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering."

Kyle(talk) 02:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC)