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- Reading group: Kant’s “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?” (1784)
Foucault returned to this essay in 1984 with his own "What is Enlightenment?", reading it as the start of a new kind of philosophical question about the present. Worth reading the two side b…
- The Gita’s karma yoga: acting without attachment to results
Interesting parallel with Weber's Protestant Ethic: work as a calling, done for its own sake, with success as a sign rather than a goal. Two very different traditions arriving at a similar psycho…
- Does a constitution need a shared conception of the good?
I'd say even the most liberal constitution assumes some goods: autonomy, toleration, a certain kind of public reasoning. Rawls admits this, which is why he limits his view to "political…
- Al-Farabi’s Virtuous City and Plato’s Republic
What interests me is the typology of bad cities. The city of necessity, the city of wealth, the city of pleasure, the city of honour: it reads like a list of modern political economies. He's diag…
- Markets are morally neutral tools
Rohan, I'd be careful: willingness to pay reflects ability to pay too. That's precisely why I put the problem in background inequality. But Aisyah's day-care case is harder for me, beca…