The Church of England has said “we take the view that it is most effective to be in the room with these companies seeking change as a shareholder.” Is this moral sophistication or mere self-serving sophistry?
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We should stop treating instantaneity as the mark of authenticity. What we find at the tips of our tongues or our fingers does not necessarily most deeply reflect who we are.
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I intend to make the whole of September, and perhaps even the rest of the year, my “festival of 50”[…]
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Contemporary anglophone philosophy has paid very little attention to biography. Its traditional emphasis is on the primacy of argument, the soundness of which has nothing to do with who happens to be making it. To bring the life or personality of a philosopher into a discussion of one of their arguments brings accusation of committing the ad hominem fallacy: addressing the arguer not the argument. …ronically, this means that although it was in continental European philosophy that the idea of “the death of the author” took hold, in Britain and America the authorial voice has been quietly but more efficiently and deliberately buried.
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Communal commemorations may take arbitrary or even baffling forms, but they have an important role to play in civic life.
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