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Tag: ethics

  • On human rights and drug-related killings

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    I caught a really thought-provoking interview on human rights featuring the philosopher John Tasioulas recently. Being an (old) episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, which caters to a general audience, the interview focused on a basic1 question: What are human rights? Basic, but not simple, since “human rights” has become both a very charged term and,…

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    Kate

  • On Enid Blyton, David Foster Wallace, and awareness as ethics

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    I had the pleasure of stumbling upon an article on morality in Enid Blyton’s work (of all things) from Aeon this week. Nakul Krishna looks into the ethical life as demonstrated by the schoolgirls of Blyton’s Malory Towers and comes out with a quote from Iris Murdoch: ‘Love,’ Murdoch wrote in an essay called ‘The Sublime…

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    Kate