Cow philosophy
Rosmaund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows made me think of how Hume did not so much elevate the animals to the supposed level of humans as claim that much human “reasoning” is no more rational than that of other animals.
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The meaning of life (redux)
We should all know what the meaning of life is by now. So why do we still have more books, more discussion, more head-scratching about what it is?
ReadA truce in the truth wars?
What unites both sides in the old “truth wars” is more important than what divides them.
ReadFriction-free fictions
In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche described what he called “The Last Men”. These are human beings who have overcome all[…]
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