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Interview with Peter Hacker

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What do you wish you knew about academic philosophy before starting your career? Can science answer many of the questions philosophy asks? I am very sorry to say that philosophy at present is in a state of grievous decline. I…

Hannah Arendt on Forgiveness

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If it were true, therefore, as Christianity assumed, that only love can forgive because only love is fully receptive to who somebody is, to the point of being always willing to forgive him whatever he may have done, forgiving would…

What Do Philosophers Think About Human Extinction?

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Torres writes: Phil Torres (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and Bruce Tonn (Tennessee) want to know, and are conducting a survey of philosophers to find out. It seems increasingly clear that humanity faces unprecedented threats to its survival, the most obvious arising…