Roberto Unger Quotes

• A todos los niveles, el mayor obstáculo para transformar el mundo es que carecemos de la claridad y la imaginación necesarias para concebir que podría ser diferente

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  Future, Imagination, Vision

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• Una de las características más llamativas de la forma de globalización que se ha establecido ahora es que se basa en la premisa de que las mercancías e incluso el capital deben circular libremente, pero la mano de obra debe permanecer aprisionada dentro del Estado nación.

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  States, Form, Should

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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.

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  Fire, Humanity, Democracy

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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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.

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  Responsibility, Caring, People

  "What Should the Left Propose?".

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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.

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  Views, Political, Vision

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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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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  Goal, Essentials, Moral

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• The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

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  Vitality, Life Is, Supreme

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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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  Treasure, Scientist, Should

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• I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

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  Country, Men, Charm

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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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  Self, World, Immediacy

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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.

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  Trying, World, Imagine

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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.

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  Differences, Humanity, Democracy

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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• El Amazonas no es sólo un conjunto de árboles. Es un conjunto de 25 millones de personas. Si no creamos oportunidades económicas reales para ellos, el resultado práctico es fomentar actividades económicas desorganizadas que se traducen en una mayor destrucción de la selva tropical.

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  Real, Rain, Opportunity

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• Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

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  People, Brazil, China

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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

  Roberto Mangabeira Unger (2014). “The Religion of the Future”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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