“As Individual And Family Security, Inheritance Was An Aesthetic And A Morality.” Herve Juvin

“Between the members of a family, transmission of an inheritance fulfilled a function entirely different from the commonplace business of preserving wealth. (more…)

“Our Incomprehension Does Not Impede Our Understanding…” Steven Pinker

“Our incomprehension of (_____) does not impede our understanding of how (_____) works (more…)

Guerrilla Comics: WHERE WE’LL BE BUYING OUR GASOLINE.

Interesting how this has gone- we may not have thought a huge decline in gasoline demand would be so early and obvious. Or leave such tidy relics. They’ve neatly left the sign- the building code must not have required its removal. Later (and in other environments), we imagine the derelict sites of gasoline stations may look rather different. What do you think?

THERE ARE NO PRIVATE ACTS: Ethics Cannot Be “Personal Choice”

Private Moral Questions?

Some of us have the idea that ethical matters are personal. That it is a tenet of “freedom” and “liberty” and “democracy” (more…)