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            it be really true that men sickened of sacred words and wearied of theology, if this largely unreasoning irritation against “dogma” did arise out of some ridiculous excess of such things among priests in the past, then I fancy we must be laying up a fine crop of cant for our descendants to grow tired of.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CHESTRTON IL DOGMA COME IL GRANO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The dawn of the Enlightenment,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:FINE DEI DOGMI....SECONDO LA VULGATA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The war on dogma
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L IMPERATIVO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Descartes, for instance, attempted to purge his mind of any and all notions,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SOLO L EVIDENZA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            delegitimizing the authority of the past to be among their noblest endeavors.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL NOBILE INTENTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Dogmas are ideals broken in by time and consecrated by experience.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L ORIGINE DEL DOGMA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The dogma of the czars killed thousands. But the dogmas of Marxism, dressed in the uniform of science and reason, slaughtered and enslaved hundreds of millions.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DOGMI VS DOGMI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Hitler was obsessed with the need to throw off the dogmas of Christianity’s slave morality.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L OSSESSIONE DI H
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “Christianity, of course, has reached the peak of absurdity,” Hitler insisted in 1941. “And that’s why one day its structure will collapse. Science has already impregnated humanity. Consequently, the more Christianity clings to its dogmas, the quicker it will decline.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DA UN DISCORSO DI H
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            they uncritically embrace an equally dogmatic aversion to mass murder.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL NS DOGMA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “dogma”: “seems good.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:EVIDENZA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            we must shed humanity of its humanity.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:QUEL CHE SI PROCLAMA DI FATTO DICHIARANDO GUERRA AI DOGMI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            animal that makes dogmas.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L UOMO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            When [man] drops one doctrine after another in a refined skepticism,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL DOGMA UNICA ARMA CONTRO LO SCETTICISMO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CHI NM HA DOGMI SI FA PORTARE DAL VENTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Jack Kevorkian.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ARRUOLATI NELLA GUERRA CONTRO IL DOGMA 1
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Franz Boas
                
                    
                            
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            John Kenneth Galbraith
                
                    
                            
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            Stephen Jay Gould,
                
                    
                            
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            New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis
                
                    
                            
                                Note:6…IL NS NEMICO HA DELLE CERTEZZE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            ertainty is the enemy of decency and humanity in people who are sure they are right, like Osama bin Laden and John Ashcroft.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PROCLAMA DI LEWIS
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Lewis’s conclusion raises a simple question: “Is Lewis really sure about this?”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:GIOCO DI SPECCHI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            you’re certain that certainty is evil,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CORTO CIRCUITO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            this is dangerous nonsense.
                
                    
                            
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            men have invented philosophy precisely because they find change, chance and process too much for them, and desire infallible security and certainty.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL RUOLO DELLA FILOSOFIA...DARE CERTEZZE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Science and reason are hailed as the greatest antidotes to dogma
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L ANTIDOTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            It is true that many dogmas are built upon mistakes. But that doesn’t mean the resulting edifice is not worthwhile.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L EDIFICIO E LE FONDAMENTA....LA RAGIONE STRAUSSIANA...SE CI CREDI LO FAI...LA FORZA DELLA FEDE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Columbus “discovered” America by mistake and the world is better for what was built upon that mistake.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:COSTRUIRE SU UN ERRORE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            How many beloved children were born thanks to some capricious accident?
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L ERRORE PIÙ BELLO DELLA VITA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            monogamous marriage between a man and a woman was a mistake, unchartered by the laws of evolution and unlicensed by the conclusions of science.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UNA CIVILTÀ SU UNA COSA CHE DIAMO X SCONTATO........MORALE...NN CRITICARE I DOGMI PROPONI I TUOI E METTILI ALLA PROVA...LA SELEZIONE NATURALE FARÀ IL RESTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            In his triumph Lincoln not only forged a new conception of our nation free of slavery, he forged a new dogma
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DOGMA ANTI SCHIAVISTA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The only plausible utilitarian retort is that the many could not be happy while enjoying the fruits of slave labor.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UTILITARISMO E SCHIAVISMO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            William F. Buckley understood that dogma is a source of progress because it sets boundaries of acceptable discourse.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DGMA COME CONFINE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Science is the author of infinite boons to humanity and need not be put in the dock because it is also the accomplice to countless crimes.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LE ACCUSE AI DOGMI SI POSSONO FARE ANCHE ALLA SCIENZA....SALVO POI PARLARE DI FALSA SCIENZA O FALSI DOGMI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Science is silent on what should be done with the fruits of science.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA SCIENZA NN IDEOLOGIZZATA IN SCIENTISMO È SILENTE SULL ESSENZIALE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Science can cure illnesses and cause them, destroy cities and build them, save lives and take them.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TUTTO È POSSIBILE...LA SCIENZA È MEZZO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Dogma constrains how science should be done.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL DOGMA DOMA NDIRIZZA LA SCIENZA...È FINE X IL MEZZO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Hippocratic Oath, even in its original form, represents not a triumph of science but a triumph of moral absolutism.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:GIURAMENTO DI IPPOCRATE...NON È SCIENZA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            There’s nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects;
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UOMO CAVIA...PERCHÈ NO?
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The mandate “first do no harm” is as rankly ideological and dogmatic a precept
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL DOGMA MEDICO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Doctors make no such exceptions to the Hippocratic Oath—save, of course, when it comes to abortion—and only then when another dogmatic obsession trumps their oath.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SCNTRO TRA DOGMI IN CAMPO MEDICO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            green religious devotion runs so deep that adherents to the dogma of climate change must not only subscribe to the diagnosis of a fevered earth, they must show undying loyalty to the proposed remedy as well.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALTRO INCROCIO XICOLOSO TRA DOGMI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            How much of a contribution and how big a problem are still open questions,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PRIMA INCERTEZZA CHE FA SALTARE I NERVI...VERO IL RISCALDAMENTO...PROB VERO L ANTROPICO MA...
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            It is also unclear what the ratio of costs and benefits might be.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SECONDA INCERTEZZA CHE TFA SALTARE I NERVI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            What gets less play are the potential benefits.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SENTIAMO PARLARE SOLO DEI COSTI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “net cereal crop yields likely will increase by 5 to 20 percent,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ES
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            United States as a whole will enjoy modest economic benefits
                
                    
                            
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            “growing season has lengthened an average of two days per decade
                
                    
                            
                                Note:USA E CANADA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            New sea routes, primarily through the Northwest Passage, will be opened as well.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALTRO BENEFICIO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            it is entirely possible that we could cure the earth by treating the symptom by, say, releasing particles into the air that would alleviate the greenhouse effect.
                
        
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            TERZA VERITÀ CHE FA IMBESTIALIRE LE CURE...GEOENGENIRING?
        
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            geoengineering
                
                    
                            
                                Note:A CHI LO PROPOSE MAL GLIENE INCOLSE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            what is lost in these debates is the crucial distinction between science and scientism.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA DISTINZIONE XDUTA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            value-neutral enterprise
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA SCIENZA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            It is not the source of moral truths,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA SCIENZA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Scientism, meanwhile, is the act of seeing in science what is not there.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:COS È LO SCIENTISMO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The practitioners of scientism presume to tell us that we should live a certain way because science tells us we must.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA PRETESA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            It is the ancient naturalistic fallacy updated with more contemporary lingo.
                
                    
                            
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            Scientism is not a testable proposition; it is an assertion of faith.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DOGMA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            scientific socialists, technocrats, progressives, social psychiatrists, and environmentalists insist that science is on their side
                
                    
                            
                                Note:MULLAH E ZELOTI DEL NS TEMPO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “Back off man, I’m a scientist.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SLOGAN...BILL MURRAY IN GHOSTBUSTER
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The fallacy of scientism creates priests
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALMENO LA FALLACIA NATURALISTA SI ASTIENE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The fetus is an unhuman with no more rights than a ham sandwich
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DOGMA SCIENTISTA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            This is nothing new. When man loses God he sets about to make new gods.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TUTTO È SPIEGABILE...ERIC VOEGELIN
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PAROLE DI VOEGELIN
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            man creates dogmas because man needs dogmas.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:OVVIO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “The mind cannot support moral chaos for long.
                
                    
                            
                                JOHN DOS PASSOS