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Pascal said we cannot sit quietly in a room. Did phones prove him right, or change the problem?
Fragment 139 of the Pensées, in the old translation on Project Gutenberg, says that "all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact": that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. (Editions number the fragments differently; in Lafuma's it is…
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Murdoch’s mother-in-law: is moral change mostly a matter of learning to see someone differently?
I've been rereading Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good (1970) and I keep coming back to the example in its first essay. A mother-in-law, M, finds her son's wife, D, tiresome: a bit common, too familiar, juvenile. M behaves perfectly correctly throughout.…
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Do I see that an old woman is being humiliated, or do I infer it? Moral perception on a night shift
Last month, when I went with one of our residents to the hospital, a senior doctor spoke to her as if she were not there, discussing her bowels with a junior doctor across her bed. I did not reason my way to…
Started by Elin Hedqvist5 replies