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Inside? Outside? What is the difference and how can you tell? When a sound enters your body through your ears and merges with your mind, what happens to it? Is it still a sound then, or has it become something else? When you eat a wing or an egg or a drumstick, at what point is it no longer a chicken? When you read these words on a page, what happens to them, when they become you?
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
Rawls’s book tries first to argue that the construction of such a discussion in the “original position” is the proper way to approach justice, and then to determine what agents in the original position would agree to. Although there is no politics in the original position, agents in that position in deciding how they will live together must, of course, agree on a political structure for the society they will inhabit.
Outside Ethics
Geuss, Raymond.
Any attempt to conclusively quantify the success or failure rate of strategic ignorance in political affairs is thwarted by an obvious problem: we are doomed to miss the most successful cases, the situations where a strategy of non-disclosure works as it’s meant to work and dispels the possibility of being found out. __It’s the major hurdle which people who study the political value of strategic ignorance all face: the fact that imperceptibility is the greatest measure of the tactic’s success.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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