Los tres gigantes de la filosofía griega son Sócrates, Platón y Aristóteles. Sócrates no dejó ningún trabajo escrito. Era un destacado crítico de los sofistas, muchos de los cuales eran defensores profesionales quienes sostenían que no existe una verdad absoluta y que toda moralidad es relativa. “Sofistería” ahora se define como el uso de argumentos […]
El pensamiento único de Yuval Harai
Hay varios libros de historias cortas del mundo e historias de la filosofía. ¿Por dónde empezar? Algunos historiadores simplemente escriben bien sin centrarse necesariamente en temas particulares: el históriodor Australiano Geoffrey Blainey es un ejemplo. Ian Morris y Jarod Diamond exploran por qué el occidente se desarrolló antes que otras partes del mundo. Jarod Diamond […]
Three Long Years
Some time, around 2005 or 2006, Bill Shorten was seeking to knock off the sitting member for Maribynong Bob Sercomb. They were both members of Labor’s right. But for various reasons the left, or parts of it, wanted to block Shorten’s pre-selection. Shorten gained a front page headline in ‘The Australian’ calling for Australia’s top […]
Labor May Need Price Controls for Childcare Policy
Labor may need to refine an important aspect of its childcare policy. Extra subsidies to parents will not be of sufficient benefit to parents if they result in price hikes from childcare providers. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) cannot be relied upon to prevent these price hikes, at least given its current suite […]
Animal welfare or animal rights?
(This article is a slightly revised extract from a longer article entitled ‘Animals’.) Modern debates about how humans should treat animals can be traced to the ancient world. Aristotle thought that human beings were superior to other animals because only human beings are capable of reasoning. Jewish, Christian and Islamic teaching is that that God […]
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