The end of good and evil | Slavoj Žižek, Maria Balaska, Rowan Williams, Richard Wrangham

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How they ruined philosophy | Babette Babich, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Christoph Schuringa

Did analytic philosophy ruin the entire discipline?For more than a century there has been a divide in Western philosophy between two distinct approaches, often described as analytic and continental philosophy. Analytic philosophy is predominantly based in the English-speaking wor ...  Show more

A new theory of ethics | Martha Nussbaum

Do we need a moral reawakening? Is animal suffering simply a fact of life or can it be avoided? How did the US Navy break whale protection laws? Is there more to animal suffering than just pain?From the cruelty of the factory meat industry to hunting and habitat destruction, anim ...  Show more

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