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5Uniting nations?The Philosophers' Magazine 43 94-98. 2008.The whole purpose of the UN is to bring nations together. In an era of globalisation and short term economic goals and values, we need to go back to reflect on the purposes of UNESCO as a place for foresight, a laboratory of ideas, exploring people’s identity and helping shape this. And I also hope that we can introduce these ideas backto the mainstream European and North American traditions, which tend to dominate, so that people can see there are different traditions and cultures and there’s n…Read more
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5Philosophy: key themesPalgrave-Macmillan. 2002.Introduction -- Theory of knowledge -- Moral philosophy -- Philosophy of mind -- Philosophy of religion -- Political philosoply -- Aesthetics.
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5Move over Mill and Bentham: The Complete Works and Selected Correspondence of Henry Sidgwick (CD-ROM), Ed. Bart Schultz, Prices on request (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 3 52-52. 1998.
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4Excavating SocratesThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 120-126. 2011.“Socrates spent many of his prime years fighting the most vicious, pitiless wars. I think that has a huge impact. I wonder if his central interest in the good is because actually he saw a lot that was very bad all around him.”
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4The austere optimistThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 25-33. 2009.If you’re thinking ethically you ought to try to take the point of view from which you consider whether you could prescribe the action if you were in the position of all of those affected by it. I think that if you consider the situation of poverty and affluence, if you were really to put yourself in the position of the poor person and the affluent person, and ask yourself whether you could support the view that the affluent person doesn’t give anything to the poor, you couldn’t.
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3The virtues of the table: how to eat and thinkGranta. 2014.An entertaining and thought-provoking look at the food on our plates, and what it can teach us about being human, from the author of The Pig That Want's to be Eaten.
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3The mind of KoreaThe Philosophers' Magazine 43 83-87. 2008.It was only after the liberation in 1945 that we started to reflect and revive again our traditional philosophy. But for a long time it was neglected. Many of our universities did not teach oriental philosophy or Korean philosophy at all. We learned Heiddegger, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant.
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