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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. T...

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None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up a...

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The Myths We Live by

By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individua...

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The Myths We Live by

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from ...

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The Myths We Live by

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Mary Midgley

Philosopher

Born: 1919-09-13

Died: N/A

Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 3 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) was an English moral philosopher.More