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Being human

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HUMANITY CANNOT BE MADE EQUAL BY DECLARATIONS ON PAPER • UNLESS THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS FOR EQUALITY EXISTS, IT IS WORSE THAN MOCKERY TO PRONOUNCE MEN EQUAL.

Caught in the web • “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.”

The Anthropocene

Ancestral debt

Evolution of empathy

Human growth • The 10 most populous countries

Faking intimacy

Friedrich Nietzsche: Director of Human Resources

Human trafficking

Modern slavery

Humans of the Anthropocene

A fraction of life

Cultural warfare

HUMAN

6 thoughts

1 All about us

2 Social utility

3 The last laugh

4 Defining ourselves

5 The basic code

6 Embracing humanity

Being Human

Human beings

Being prey

The evolution of moral outrage

human /ˌhju: men /

Nothing but human

poet

Doing away with death

Confronting agony

Ethical children • Questions from and answers for children, by Matthew Beard

Ethical dilemma

The controlling force

Being human

Make time for poet tea

Learning to lose

Ozymandias

The woman at home • Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXI: power. In top spot is philosopher Carrie Jenkins, with her piece “Woman at home”. Cameron Raynes has taken out second place for his essay “Sent home to die”.

Sent home to die

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Human divisions

13 questions: Helena Norberg-Hodge