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In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Allen Wood‘s attempts to salvage Marx‘s theory of exploitation.
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In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.
Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade, but some historical philosophers sought to justify slavery from the best intentions. The great Greek ...
Consider, now the so-called "Philosopher's Brief." Six eminent American moral philosophers -- Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson -- ...
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This is what we might call a collective harm problem, where the acts of many together lead to harmful outcomes, but no ...