For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...

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In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

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Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...