Ebooks v paper
Because it is obvious that reading is important, it can easily seem self-evident what reading is. Perhaps the real contribution of ereaders will be to make us re-examine that assumption.
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
Should we travel?
Laudable cosmopolitan pluralism can become amoral permissiveness. Sex tourists convince themselves that underage prostitution in southeast Asia is “just what they do”, while driving a hard bargain with someone struggling to feed her family is simply following the local bartering customs.
ReadHow do you evaluate a life?
Placing importance on quality of life need not lead to denying the equality of lives. To say that all life is of equal value is to say that every life should be treated with the same respect and that no one has the right to judge one life to be more inherently valuable than another. This does not mean, however, that we cannot take into account quality of life when deciding how tightly we should cling to it.
ReadFree Thinking
FREE THINKING – BBC RADIO THREE. I was on last nights programme talking about community with Tim Stanley Zia Sardar and Philip Dodd.
ReadIs better off really better?
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.” There is some truth in this, but good and bad cannot be defined purely relative to expectation and experience. Many things or states of affairs really are better or worse than others.
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