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assessment of value and limitations.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
bogus arguments,
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Philosophy is not Neosporin. It is not some healing balm. It is an irritant, which is why Socrates described himself as a gadfly.
Peter Catapano • Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Partiality to loved ones is justified because it is an essential ingredient in one of the highest of human goods.”
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
the role of probabilities and values
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Friedrich Nietzsche had long predicted the dissolution of Western thought,
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
We cannot, then, replace Plato’s philosopher-kings with scientist-kings. First, we can’t just take at face value a group’s claim to scientific authority; we have to decide whom to accept as experts. Further, there will often be a non-trivial logical gap between established scientific results and specific policy decisions; and, even 2,400 years afte
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