by Kevin Currie-Knight ____ A friend of mine posted a meme about how vegans are cultural elitists because they do not take seriously the fact
Category: This Week’s Special
This week’s specials consist of short pieces on classic articles or ideas in Philosophy or other Humanities, intended to spur discussion.
THREE NEW BOOKS: tWO — jULIA GALEF’S “THE SCOUT MINDSET”
By Kevin Currie-Knight ____ Early in her book, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (Portfolio, 2021), Julia Galef comes
three new books: One – jesse singal’s, “The Quick Fix”
by Kevin Currie-Knight ____ Three new books came out in April 2021 that I have been eager to read (Jesse Singal’s The Quick Fix; Julia
This Week’s Special: On a Metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by Daniel A. Kaufman I want to talk about a certain metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It appears in a lone sentence in Book III,
This Week’s Special: George Orwell’s, “Politics and the English Language”
by Daniel A. Kaufman Orwell’s influential essay, published in 1946, when considered alongside his “The Prevention of Literature” (1946) and the Appendix to 1984, “The
This Week’s Special: John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism.”
by Daniel A. Kaufman http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/utilitarianism.pdf One of the two most well-known, most influential works in moral philosophy – the other is Kant’s Groundwork for the