To some, it sounds like a dream to work in a business with no bosses.
But as philosopher Julian Baggini points out, if you think hierarchy is so imperfect, ask for the most junior surgeon possible to perform your next operation
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This edition of the microphilosophy newsletter looks at a Confucian challenge to Stoicism.
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Philosophy deprives itself of valuable resources when it turns its back on history, and so also history is of limited use if we don’t apply its lessons to philosophy. The humanities are always stronger when they work together, not in hermetically sealed departments.
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The third and final part of the lengthy discussion between two philosophers who take different views on the best way to advance trans rights about why the debate is such a fraught one, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Mary Leng.
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Decent people can and sometimes do make bad leaders, but the morally vacuous never make good ones
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