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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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.
ReadMemo to those seeking to live for ever
It is one thing to accept our mortality as a necessary part of being embodied beings who live in time. But it is quite another to romanticise death or consider it to be no bad thing at all. Immortality might be a foolish goal but a longer mortality certainly isn’t.
ReadShould you be allowed to “marry” your sister?
As heterosexual couples gain access to Civil Partnerships, why not offer legal partnerships to platonic couples, too?
ReadWhere is the conservative metropolitan elite?
Why is the metropolitan elite always characterised as liberal?
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