Philosophy

Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one?

By Elsa Rodeck   Posted in Issue 114
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By Roman Krznaric, first published at www.psych.co July 2020 Humankind has colonised the future. We treat it like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk and nuclear waste – as if nobody will be there. This resembles the attitude of the British in their colonisation of …

Bani Adam: the 13th century Persian poem that shows why humanity needs a global response to coronavirus

By Elsa Rodeck   Posted in Issue 109
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Bani Adam: the 13th-century Persian poem that shows why humanity needs a global response to coronavirus By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, SOAS, University of London. Originally published in The Conversation, March 27th 2020. Coronavirus is all about human connectivity. From a philosophical perspective, I’ve been thinking about how this virus …