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- Responsibility in a complex world 17/12/2020
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- Climate Change, Covid-19, and the Apocalypse 05/05/2020
- The idealistic fallacy of the autonomous self 22/04/2020
- The corona crisis as the big degrowth experiment 13/04/2020
- The moral charge of made institutions 07/04/2020
- The value of values: What ethics can learn from the corona crisis 05/04/2020
- Some chattering about the public debate on social media 11/03/2020
- Issues in the relationship between science and politics 23/02/2020
- Making things and discourses. An answer to the question: What is philosophy? 16/02/2020
- The eternal Golden Age: The discursive corruption of the Dutch self-image 07/02/2020
- A new way for the political left: Towards a wiser and richer society? 27/01/2020
- The amorality of organizations 05/01/2020
- Causes versus understandings: Why self-driving cars may not be a good idea 11/12/2019
- The Forgotten Virtue of Forgiveness in the Public Domain 25/11/2019
- Thinking with words and thinking with things 06/11/2019
- The romantic ideal of our illusory evolution 25/10/2019
- Free will exists because we want it to 11/09/2019
- The state of technology and society in a world without borders 20/08/2019
- About Privacy, Poo and Cyberspace 09/07/2019
- Optimization machines: The peculiar reversal of rationality 20/04/2019
- A hero like Hirschman and the turns in transition thinking 08/04/2019
- Can you call a politician fascist? Narratives, accountabilities and the ‘benefit of the doubt’ 28/03/2019
- Is moral change possible? 21/03/2019
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- Misunderstandings about the freedom of speech: About the rules for the public debate 16/02/2019
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The Forgotten Virtue of Forgiveness in the Public Domain
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] According to Hannah Arendt, the ability to forgive plays an essential role in public life, because participants do not have to feel discouraged about introducing something new – a decision, a … Continue reading