Hierarchy and Equality in America
In a culture that values equality, what is the role and function of hierarchy in America today? With Kwame Anthony Appiah,[…]
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If you want trust, stick to commonsense morality
Morality is a form of common sense: the sense we have in common of what we all owe to each other. It can only work if we refuse to make ad hoc exceptions, no matter how intellectually justified they appear to be.
ReadMust all good things come to an end?
There is a sense in which everything that we have done cannot be undone. If you have loved, then it will always be true that you have loved. No achievement can be taken away once it has been achieved. Good things never really end, we just come to the end of them.
ReadWhy we want underdogs to have their day
In zero-sum games such as sport, for one to rise, another must fall. But if our love of the underdog is not to turn poisonous, we should try always to focus more on our delight for the victor rather than gloating over the one who has been toppled.
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Plato and Aristotle claimed that philosophy begins with wonder. Bryan Magee is proof that for some, the wonder never dies, it only deepens.
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