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Morris Raphael Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25, 1880 – January 28, 1947) was an American philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

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Morris Raphael Cohen

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

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Morris Raphael Cohen

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

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Morris Raphael Cohen

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

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Morris Raphael Cohen

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

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In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

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Morris Raphael Cohen