Philosophy

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Can the categorical imperative rescue economics?

Could Kant’s categorical imperative reduce or even reverse the tendency of conventional economics to produce extremely selfish and greedy human beings?

    

A Touch of Pontius Pilate

In an interesting Guardian piece about how rightwing newspapers like the Daily Mail and Telegraph had helped Liz Truss to

      

The Social Dilemma & Democracy in Chains

We watched the Social Dilemma a couple of nights ago. Very fascinating and intriguing. It illustrates, inter alia, how societies

    

Democracy – A Contested Concept and Project

The electoral process is flawed but probably for very different reasons than you might think! What is really flawed is

     

Liberty: Heart Of The Matter

Is there a collective reality of god or is it all just personal and individual? I am interested to know

     

How Many Wrongs?

One reading of de Mandeville’s grumbling hive is that he was criticising hypocrisy. One could make an argument I think

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How many hours should we work?

Speaking of working less, there was a recent report that suggested that people would have to cut their working hours

  

The Cancer of Capitalism

I shall be most amazed if any of the analysis points to the true and systemic causes of climate change.

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How much water is in the glass?

Tell me how the glass is half full? Personally, i would rather the glass were half full, or indeed completely

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