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См., например, D.M. Armstrong A Materialist Theory of the Mind .

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K.R. Popper and J.C. Eccles. The Self and Its Brain , p. 22.

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Обширный обзор этой темы можно найти в книге: J.R. Lucas. The Freedom of the Will.

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Разумеется, наука способна систематически описать и случайные процессы, если перед нами – ансамбль идентичных систем; однако земной шар у нас только один.

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After long reflection, I cannot avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to progressive development exists (Quoted from Wonderful Life by S.J. Gould; p. 257).

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В моей книге «Вера и Разум» я привел обзор мнений еврейских философов на эту тему.

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The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and intellectual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men which determines their existence; it is on the contrary their social existence which determines their consciousness (Preface to Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ).

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The truth of this premise must be admitted even by those who see in our ideas, including our scientific ideas, merely by-products of material developments of some kinds or other ( The Poverty of Historicism , vi).

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(1) The course of human history is strongly influenced by the growth of human knowledge. (2) We cannot predict, by rational or scientific methods, the future growth of our scientific knowledge. (This assertion can be logically proved…) (3) We cannot, therefore, predict the future course of human history. (4) …There can be no scientific theory of historical development serving as a basis for historical prediction.

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«Статьи об основах иудаизма», с. 89 (на иврите).

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The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game ( Chance and Necessity , p. 145).

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Там же, p. 159.

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Взято из книги «Challenge», с. 452.

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Thus the Holocaust is not only a unique event: it is epoch-making. The world, just as the Jewish world, can never again be the same. The event therefore resists explanation – the historical kind that seeks causes, and the theological kind that seeks meaning and purpose. More precisely, the better the mind succeeds with the necessary task of explaining what can be explained, the more it is shattered by its ultimate failure ( The Jewish Return into History , by E.L. Fackenheim, p. 279; выделено мной. – Б.Ф. ).

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…With God the quantity of injustice must be immaterial ( Faith after the Holocaust , p. 130).

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«Из бури» раввина Йосефа Дова ѓа-Леви Соловейчика, с. 91 (на иврите).

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For their moral bases the “liberal” societies of the West still teach – or pay lipservice to – a disgusting farrago of Judeo-Christian religiosity, scientific progressism, belief in the “natural” rights of man… (Monod J.: Chance and Necessity , p. 171).

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For there to be enough time to construct the constituents of living beings, the Universe must be at least ten billion years old and therefore, as a consequence of its expansion, at least ten billion light years in extent. We should not be surprised to observe that the Universe is so large. No astronomer could exist in one that was significantly smaller. The Universe needs be as big as it is in order to evolve just a single carbon based life form (J.D. Barrow & F.J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, p. 3).

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The emergence of full consciousness, capable of self-reflection, which seems to be linked to the human brain and to the descriptive function of language, is indeed one of the greatest of miracles (K.R. Popper; J.C. Eccles, The Self and Its Brain , p. 129).