That mindset echoes aspeechLenin gave in 1920 before the Russian Young Communist League. After declaring that “we reject ethics” based on “God’s commandments,” Lenin stated that “our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests” of advancing Communism. Lenin’s doctrine was also embra...
(2006). Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. (S. Macedo & J. Ober, Eds.). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Primates and philosophers: How mora...
Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our...
which includes the word “undue” (as in “undue preference”). However, that’s hardly convincing. Philosophers (and other academics) re-define words all the time, and it is a pillar of philosophical debate (which good Ph.D. programs do teach…...
Analysis of the organisation and localisation of the FSHD-associated tandem array in primates: Implications for the origin and evolution of the 3.3 kb repe... The D4Z4 locus is a polymorphic tandem repeat sequence on human chromosome 4q35. This locus is implicated in the neuromuscular disorder...
Moral philosophers and economists have evaluated the intergenerational problem of climate change by applying the whole gamut of theories on distributive justice. In this article, however, it is argued that intergenerational justice cannot imply the application of moral ideal theories to future generations...
“you are just an impression!” (from Action Philosophers!) There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for the differences between ancient and modern Stoicism, but even withinancient Stoicism itself. After all, the philosophy evolved over a co...
It you were designing from scratch the rules by which a deliberative body would be most likely to develop and enact sensible legislation (what political philosophers do when they theorize about “deliberative democracy“) you would not end up with something like the House of Commons. To say ...
It is a middle ground very different from the one proposed by Mark Berkson based on other texts outside these traditions, where one performs worldly acts on the outside but is a renouncer on the inside. Rather, against Śāntideva and with Nussbaum, external goods do matter for our well...
who-who are coming at things from a different angle. And that what ends up happening is like an ensemble show that has a message behind it, or a, or a theme or an idea, but where the comedy itself tends to be sort of friendly. It's the result of like who I am, what I care ...