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Utilitarian philosopher and Princeton Professor Peter Singer offers a conservative estimate that by donating $200 to a charity that fights starvation and disease in sub-Saharan Africa, you can save one human life by saving a child from an early death. The U.N. estimates that 70 million people will die...
DIED. JOHN RAWLS, 82, influential American thinker and Harvard University professor best known for his groundbreaking 1971 book A Theory of Justice; in Lexington, Massachusetts. The book provided fresh insights into the concepts of justice and equality at a time when the morality of the Vietnam War was being hotly...
Four weeks ago, Rawls became the second living philosopher to have a Cambridge Companion volume published on him. His wife painted the portrait of him that appears on the cover.
“He wasn’t just a moral philosopher, but a person of transcendent goodness, so good that he made you feel it was a privilege to be a contemporary of his,” said Thomas Nagel, university professor at New York University.
Jacques Derrida is very not dead. in fact, he's a little too alive, basking in the attention of young female groupies, scrambling for his keys, checking out his library archive and standing in front of his closet debating which designer's jacket to wear to a dinner party. For...