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Showing posts with label Aristotle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aristotle. Show all posts
Monday, 26 June 2023

Ideas Animate Democracy

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Keith Tidman   T he philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once advised, ‘Life can only be understood backwards … but it must be lived forward’ — tha...
Sunday, 26 February 2023

Universal Human Rights for Everyone, Everywhere

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau By Keith Tidman H uman rights exist only if people believe that they do and act accordingly. To that extent, we are, c...
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Monday, 13 June 2022

The Diamond–Water Paradox

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All that glitters is not gold! Or at least, is not worth as much as gold. Here, richly interwoven cubic crystals of light metallic golden py...
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Monday, 13 September 2021

The Play of Old and New

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by Andrew Porter In trying to figure out what's valuable in the old and the new, what should we keep or discard? Should change be invite...
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Monday, 19 July 2021

The ‘Common Good’ and Equality of Opportunity

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Adam Smith, t he 19th-century Scottish philosopher, warned against both monopoly interests and government intervention in private economic a...
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Monday, 8 February 2021

Will Democracy Survive?

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Cleisthenes, the Father of Democracy, Invented a Form of Government That Has Endured for 2,500 Years Posted by Keith Tidman H ow well is dem...
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Monday, 14 December 2020

Persuasion v. Manipulation in the Pandemic

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Posted by Keith Tidman P ersuasion and manipulation to steer public behaviour are more than just special cases of each other. Manipulation, ...
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Monday, 9 November 2020

The Certainty of Uncertainty

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Posted by Keith Tidman   W e favour certainty over uncertainty. That’s understandable. Our subscribing to certainty reassures us that perhap...
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Monday, 20 January 2020

Environmental Ethics and Climate Change

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Posted by Keith Tidman T he signals of a degrading environment are many and on an existential scale, imperilling the world’s ecosystems....
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Monday, 9 December 2019

Is Torture Morally Defensible?

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Posted by Keith Tidman F ar from being unconscionable , today one metric of how societies have universalised torture is that, accordin...
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