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Mark Gerald Kingwell, M.Litt, M.Phil, PhD, DFA (born March 1, 1963) is a Canadian professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College. He specialises in theories of politics and culture.

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How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Doe, Happens, Want, World

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

Abundance, Paradoxically, Politics, Problem, Scarcity

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

Littles, People, Purpose, Rich

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

Apparent, Created, Danger, Gain, Gains, World

We are capitalism made flesh.

Capitalism, Flesh, Made

If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's actions, Westacott is for you. His linked studies of everyday vices offer elegant analysis of the goods that lurk in behavior that is usually condemned. This wise book is practical philosophy in the best sense.

Book, Like, Philosophy, Studies, Westacott, Wise

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

Allowed, Filling, Filling In, Finding, Matter, Space

Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.

Book, Conclusions, Dark, Felt, Moral, Powerful

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Creatures, Dream, Evidence, Meaning, Produce

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Firsts, Maybe, People, Provoking, Socrates

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

Faith, Leap, Regard, Requires

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.

Ambiguous, Gather, Manages, Memories, People, War

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

Ambition, Fool, Fools, Fortune, Tempered

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

Ancient, Identity, Peculiar, Problems, Think, Thinking

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Desire, Desires, Transparent, Wholly