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Raymond Geuss
When I’ve been on holiday in a foreign city, I’ve always enjoyed wandering around aimlessly in its public spaces, getting to know them in a wholly unsystematic and haphazard way, and even in Cambridge, where I have lived and worked for almost thirty years now, part of my day, unless the press of work was […]
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Lorna Finlayson
An emergency is defined not by the inherent badness or dangerousness of a situation, but by what we make of it. To call something an ‘emergency’ is to declare that something can and must be done about it – even at the cost of significant disruption to everyday life. Things judged to be beyond our […]
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Francis O’Gorman
The revival of the London plague in 1665 ‘alarmed us all again,’ said Daniel Defoe in A Journal of the Plague Year (1722): ‘and terrible apprehensions were among the people, especially the weather being now changed and growing warm, and the summer being at hand’. Uncomfortable words. Defoe’s book, like Albert Camus’s La Peste (1947), […]
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Hugh Stevens
In November 1983 a twenty-nine-year-old man named Bruce Burnett returned to his homeland, New Zealand/Aotearoa, from San Francisco. Bruce hadn’t been in San Francisco long: he had left New Zealand in 1982, and when he came home he had swollen lymph glands and a persistent intestinal infection.[1] Bruce thought he might have AIDS. For several […]
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Catherine Flynn
In the last chapter of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus misquotes a line from Thomas Nash’s “Litany in Time of Plague.” Nash wrote the poem during one of a series of bubonic plagues that beset London in the sixteenth century and the poem is fixated on death as […]
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Claire Fenton-Glynn
Fifty years ago, before the development of artificial reproductive technology, and when same-sex relationships and transgender individuals were unrecognised by the law, the question of who was a child’s mother was so obvious as not to warrant judicial or legislative attention. However, the social shape and legal understanding of the family has dramatically changed over […]
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Prof. Timo Maran
Corona virus has had a major impact on the functioning of our societies, health-care and economy. Many people have lost their lives or health, and even more have lost their jobs. The virus has severely disturbed education, travelling, sports and other aspects of our lives that we used to consider self-evident. In relation to this […]
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Dorothea Frede
The most important virtues in our present situation are undoubtedly patience, self-restraint, and forbearance. Yet none of them is contained in the catalogue of virtues in Aristotle’s ethics (see Nicomachean Ethics II 7). This is not because his assessment of the conditions of the good, active human life is particularly optimistic or because he does […]
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Raymond Geuss
When I’ve been on holiday in a foreign city, I’ve always enjoyed wandering around aimlessly in its public spaces, getting to know them in a wholly unsystematic and haphazard way, and even in Cambridge, where I have lived and worked for almost thirty years now, part of my day, unless the press of work was […]
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Lorna Finlayson
An emergency is defined not by the inherent badness or dangerousness of a situation, but by what we make of it. To call something an ‘emergency’ is to declare that something can and must be done about it – even at the cost of significant disruption to everyday life. Things judged to be beyond our […]
Read More
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Francis O’Gorman
The revival of the London plague in 1665 ‘alarmed us all again,’ said Daniel Defoe in A Journal of the Plague Year (1722): ‘and terrible apprehensions were among the people, especially the weather being now changed and growing warm, and the summer being at hand’. Uncomfortable words. Defoe’s book, like Albert Camus’s La Peste (1947), […]
Read More
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Hugh Stevens
In November 1983 a twenty-nine-year-old man named Bruce Burnett returned to his homeland, New Zealand/Aotearoa, from San Francisco. Bruce hadn’t been in San Francisco long: he had left New Zealand in 1982, and when he came home he had swollen lymph glands and a persistent intestinal infection.[1] Bruce thought he might have AIDS. For several […]
Read More
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Catherine Flynn
In the last chapter of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus misquotes a line from Thomas Nash’s “Litany in Time of Plague.” Nash wrote the poem during one of a series of bubonic plagues that beset London in the sixteenth century and the poem is fixated on death as […]
Read More
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Claire Fenton-Glynn
Fifty years ago, before the development of artificial reproductive technology, and when same-sex relationships and transgender individuals were unrecognised by the law, the question of who was a child’s mother was so obvious as not to warrant judicial or legislative attention. However, the social shape and legal understanding of the family has dramatically changed over […]
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Prof. Timo Maran
Corona virus has had a major impact on the functioning of our societies, health-care and economy. Many people have lost their lives or health, and even more have lost their jobs. The virus has severely disturbed education, travelling, sports and other aspects of our lives that we used to consider self-evident. In relation to this […]
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Dorothea Frede
The most important virtues in our present situation are undoubtedly patience, self-restraint, and forbearance. Yet none of them is contained in the catalogue of virtues in Aristotle’s ethics (see Nicomachean Ethics II 7). This is not because his assessment of the conditions of the good, active human life is particularly optimistic or because he does […]
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