Modern comforts that exploit others
Accepting we’re all sinners is no reason not to try to sin less. That’s not always easy. But when the only thing we have to do is stop snorting cocaine, there really is no excuse.
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Time to abandon grand ethical theories?
There is space for a kind of moral seriousness that sees importance in doing the right thing without believing we can ever have a formula for specifying what the right thing is. Many moral philosophers are at work in this space, trying to show that even if we can’t tidy up every inch, there are more or less rigorous ways of muddling through.
ReadFriction-free fictions
In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche described what he called “The Last Men”. These are human beings who have overcome all[…]
ReadCompliance, character and Confucius
If the Home Office and Starbucks yield to the temptation to address their failings only by introducing yet more policies or protocols, they will have failed to learn a more than two-millennia old lesson that remains just as important today.
ReadWhy I don’t meditate
Even the hardest-nosed sceptic would find it difficult to deny that meditation brings a number of significant benefits. Why then don’t I meditate?
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