Things You Can Do
Take a thoughtful yet slightly goofy dive into ethics with your professor, Peter Owens, to discover some... things you can do.
Things You Can Do
Billions of Ethics, or, Where to Spit
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Is it morally defensible to be a billionaire? What do philosophers across history think? And how many corrupt rich rulers can a yeongno eat?
References:
Elaine Schwartz, Degree in a Book: Economics, Arcturus Publishing, 2023.
22:53: David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years, pgs. 23 and 28
33:10: Ed. and Trans by Robin Hard, Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes, with Other Popular Moralists, Oxford Press.
35:34: Enchiridion, trans. by Nicholas P. White, Hackett Press, p. 17.
37:23: Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, trans. and ed. by Maurice Cranston, p. 81.
43:35 and following: Diogenes, Sayings and Anecdotes, pgs. 110 and 147.
47:00: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, https://books.google.com/books/about/Tal_and_Talchum.html?id=GE1vBgAAQBAJ
50:46: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1097b10-15