The Top 5 articles for your week: “Against Longtermism” (Aeon Magazine) Because a former proponent of longtermism argues why the ideology is dangerous — it reduces humans to their potential and existential threats to blips in time. …the topic of our extinction has received little sustained attention from philosophers until recently, and even now remains at the fringe of philosophical discussion and debate. On the whole, they have been preoccupied with other matters. However, there is one notable exception to this rule: over the past two decades, a small group of theorists mostly based in Oxford have been busy working out the details of a new moral worldview called longtermism, which
Top 5: Consumerism, longtermism, Dune-ism
Top 5: Consumerism, longtermism, Dune-ism
Top 5: Consumerism, longtermism, Dune-ism
The Top 5 articles for your week: “Against Longtermism” (Aeon Magazine) Because a former proponent of longtermism argues why the ideology is dangerous — it reduces humans to their potential and existential threats to blips in time. …the topic of our extinction has received little sustained attention from philosophers until recently, and even now remains at the fringe of philosophical discussion and debate. On the whole, they have been preoccupied with other matters. However, there is one notable exception to this rule: over the past two decades, a small group of theorists mostly based in Oxford have been busy working out the details of a new moral worldview called longtermism, which