The unsurprising vices of philosophers
The assumption that philosophy involves the careful study of ethics and that would tend to make people more ethical is questionable for several reasons.
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Normal life is suspended. Hallelujah.
Walking in the snow, I was savouring the way in which normal life had been joyously suspended.
ReadWhat philosophy can teach us about tackling abuse
Inadequate processes are not the source of the problem, although they are part of it. The word that has been used most frequently to describe the source of Oxfam’s malaise is its “culture”, the corporate equivalent of “character”.
ReadThe power of second thoughts
How habits of thinking can challenge unthinking habits.
ReadThe ungrateful traveller
Last week I went to Bangkok. Returning home, the question on my mind was how did such an astonishing statement become so mundane?
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