Tag: Paul Sagar

• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn

  I’m getting old now and although I don’t regret the slow accumulation of the lately-wilting years, I’ve noticed that a lot of people do -or at least say they do. I’m not sure how well they’ve thought it through, however; even if they somehow managed to continue their lives in a candy shop, they’d soon […]

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  May 11, 2022

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  Aeon.co, Age, Bernard Williams, categorical desires, contingent desires, human self, immortality, King’s College London, New York University, Paul Sagar, Samuel Scheffler, trees

• Who’s afraid of the Deodand?

  Sometimes Philosophy hides in plain sight; interesting questions emerge, unbidden, when you least expect them. A few months ago I was waiting in a line to order a coffee in a poorly-lit shop, when the woman behind bumped into me as she struggled to read the menu posted on the wall over the counter. “They […]

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  June 10, 2020

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  Adam Smith, Aeon.co, coffee shop, deodand, English Common Law, humour, King’s College London, Paul Sagar, philosophy, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Woody Allen

• The time is out of joint

  It came as a great shock, of course -Youth  does not easily admit defeat: it lives as if there is always a tomorrow, will always be a tomorrow. The sun will rise after any darkness; day will always follow night. Youth is immortal, although perhaps it is that death is further away than they can […]

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  July 2, 2019

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  Aeon.co, Bernard Williams, brain tumour, categorical vs contingent desires, Death, Groundhog Day, immortality, King’s College London, lifespan, listening, Miguel de Unamuno, New York University, Paul Sagar, Samuel Scheffler