Aristotle and Confucius, Federer and Nadal
My trip to Wimbledon wasn’t so much a day off philosophy as a field trip.
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Category: Microphilosophy
Who holds power in the food chain?
We get the food system we deserve because at the end of the day we prefer having choice and cheap prices at the point of purchase to the alternative of fewer options but fairer pay for all, good animal husbandry and an agricultural sector that maintains the soil for future generations rather than chasing higher short-term yields.
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Why is the metropolitan elite always characterised as liberal?
ReadCow philosophy
Rosmaund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows made me think of how Hume did not so much elevate the animals to the supposed level of humans as claim that much human “reasoning” is no more rational than that of other animals.
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