“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
Friday, January 20, 2017
On Derek Parfit
This is a very nice piece about the lately departed anti-utilitarian utilitarian.
ecology, philosophy, culture, science
Derek Parfit
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