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Roberto Unger Biography

Roberto Mangabeira Unger (/ˈʌŋɡər/; born 24 March 1947) is a philosopher and politician. He has developed his views and positions across many fields, including social, political, and economic theory. In legal theory, he is best known by his work in the 1970s and 80s while at Harvard Law School as part of the Critical Legal Studies movement, which is held to have helped disrupt the methodological consensus in American law schools. His political activity helped the transition to democracy in Brazil in the aftermath of the military regime, and culminated with his appointment as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs in 2007 and again in 2015. His work is seen to offer a vision of humanity and a program to empower individuals and change institutions.

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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

Creature, Die, Immediacy, Self, Visonary, World

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.

Democracy, Differences, Different, Humanity, Represent, World

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.

Existence, Insatiable, Urgent, Groundless, Vertiginous

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.

Bigger, Essential, Essentials, Goal, Life, Moral

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 a caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system

Responsibility, Caring, People, Instead, Principle, Position

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.

Real, Rain, Opportunity, Activities, Result, Set

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Discrete, Political, Problems, Solutions, Views, Vision

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Outset, Riddles, Scientist, Should, Solve, Treasure

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

Future, Greatest, Imagination, Level, Obstacle, Vision

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

Away, Good, Life Is, Seeping, Supreme, Vitality

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.

Democracies, Democracy, Fire, Humanity, Individuals, Prisoners

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.

Imagine, See, Trying, Universe, World

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

Country, Men, Charm, Regard, Man

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

States, Form, Should, Remain, Nation, Established

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

Brazil, China, Future, People