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Well, here I am in Kathmandu, Nepal. It has been a very long time since I last wrote, so enthused and energised as I was by those interesting news stories. It was an enthused time indeed: I wrote my last entry just two days before I considered myself 100% finished and free from the trappings […]
I’m not sure if this morning is a particularly interesting news morning, or if I’m just feeling particularly engaged. In any case, the stories that woke me up have each left me thinking. First is the story of Harry Willis, WW1 veteran who is likely to have been buried in Pheasant Wood France and whose […]
I haven’t read Nicomachean Ethics but early in Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen quotes Aristotle as saying that
wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
Sen goes on to say
If we have reasons to want more wealth, we have to ask: What precisely […]
“Literary censorship is important not only because men tend to commit their most important ideas to print but because throughout history they have tended to censor their most vital new concepts as dangerous. The very censoring of an idea may be the best proof of its claim to social significance. If an idea is not […]
