David Murdock looks at the secret of paying attention
Sometimes I do hear of things … but they don’t stick until I’m “ready” to listen. If that’s not paying attention, I don’t know what is.
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Sometimes I do hear of things … but they don’t stick until I’m “ready” to listen. If that’s not paying attention, I don’t know what is.
This week, I am pleased to present my interview with the academic philosopher Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, leader of the Vegan Studies Network. Silvia is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, located at the University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic. She is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil, and a co-editor of three other philosophy books. She is also a vegan feminist who has been bringing philosophical concepts such as moral impossibility into conversation with veganism and animal ethics. In 2021, she co-organized t...
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In effect, the “patriotism” of our current leadership class boils down to the freedom of everyone else to shut up and do what they’re told.
“The thought that his end was imminent always gave him a sense of release and new vitality.”