Human civilization is unjust and replete with human-caused suffering - so what can any thoughtful individual possibly do about it? Philosopher Kieran Setiya believes there are better options than capitulation or despair | BBC Future | Nov 2022 bbc.com/future/article…

Emmanuel Levinas believed that otherness is something to celebrate. And rather than looking for commonality to ground our moral concerns, we might recognise another person as a universe of mystery .. someone to fill us with awe, care and concern. ethics.org.au/ethics-explain…

‘What we’re bad at doing is sizing up all the evidence and seeing where it points overall’ ‘What we’re really good at is saying: ‘Here’s the hypothesis I want to believe; let me now see if I can find evidence’ Jonathan Haidt Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine iview, 2017 psmag.com/news/big-ideas…

‘.. this gaping wound through which illusion can make its way in’ Merleau-Ponty with thanks to Christina Tudor-Sideri

Isaiah Berlin argued that amongst humans there’s an irreducible diversity of moral values. He saw moral contests as ubiquitous rather than exceptional, in both public and personal interactions. Aeon Magazine Philosophy | Dec 2019 aeon.co/essays/what-ca…

‘None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.’ Bertrand Russell On Free Thought & Official Propaganda, 1922 users.drew.edu/~jlenz/br-free…

Animals as Victims 🎈 Carlo Salzani and Zipporah Weisberg #animalstudies #animalrights #victims #victimhood parisinstitute.org/animals-as-vic…

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT hallucinate — so, what can you do about it? 😵‍💫💻

What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope? Kant, driven by these 3 questions, argued that the supreme principle of morality is an objective, rational, necessary, unconditional principle that we must follow despite any desires to the contrary. plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-m…

‘Ethics is the infinite task of harmonising humanity’ Living together, and prospering as a collaborative and evolving people, ethical principles may help guide our sense of self & our sense of others. Sydney Ethics Org ethics.org.au/moral-intuitio…

This 14th-century door at Exeter Cathedral, United Kingdom, is believed to feature the oldest known cat flap still in existence. Historical records indicate that a cat was employed to control the population of rats and mice in the north tower, receiving a weekly payment of one

A small tree trunk library in the gardens of Maison Chateaubriand in the south of Paris. Now a grand museum, it was once the home of writer & politician René de Chateaubriand | 📷 Jérôme Houvet tripadvisor.com.au/Attraction_Rev…

An ancient Egyptian rock library On Sehel Island in the Nile River, immortalising the lives & times of ancient officials & kings: hieroglyphs were inscribed over 1000’s of years by travellers making their way upstream into Nubia. c 2034 BCE to c 31 BCE en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehel_Isl…

An ancient Egyptian rock library On Sehel Island in the Nile River, immortalising the lives & times of ancient officials & kings: hieroglyphs were inscribed over 1000’s of years by travellers making their way upstream into Nubia. c 2034 BCE to c 31 BCE en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehel_Isl…

An ancient Egyptian rock library On Sehel Island in the Nile River, immortalising the lives & times of ancient officials & kings: hieroglyphs were inscribed over 1000’s of years by travellers making their way upstream into Nubia. c 2034 BCE to c 31 BCE en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehel_Isl…

On Sehel Island, in the Nile River near Aswan in Egypt: the famous ‘Famine Stela’ Ancient hieroglyphs, inscribed on a block of local granite, recount 7 years of drought & famine during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser, of the Third Dynasty, c 2686 - 2613 BCE en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_St…

Earth vibrated for 9 straight days recently after an unprecedented, climate-triggered, landslide in Greenland. A 1,200-metre-high mountain peak collapsed, triggering a 200m high ocean tsunami -> the entire Earth into shock. Guardian Env, Sept 2024 theguardian.com/environment/20…

🎨 Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles, 1663 by Karel Dujardin (detail) - An Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life ✍🏽 ‘Facing the Transitoriness of Human Existence’ - essay by Viktor Frankl, 1990 jstor.org/stable/44876917