Toxic

Is masculinity necessarily toxic?

By / / Feminist philosophy, Philosophy of human nature / , , , , , , ,

Thank you, Frankie Belton, for such a stirring question! When we ask a question about whether something (A) is necessarily something else (B), we are asking whether there can ever be an A that is not also a B. In other words, what we are asking is not whether there are A’s that are also […]

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Why do the things we love – wine, for instance – hurt us the most?

By / / Aesthetics, Philosophy of human nature, Philosophy of mind / , , , ,

Thank you, Jesal Panchal, for such an important question! As humans we always tend to look at the things that surround us as if they are humans too. As humans, we often (consciously or not) hurt one another, but can objects, on their own, hurt us too? A glass of wine never hurt anyone, right?

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