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Ethics as worldview

Ethics is a very important discipline, in that it provides the foundations for all human actions, both on a small, individual and a large, political and macro-economic scale. Ethics can be seen a long endeavor in providing an answer to the question “what is the good”. Personal decisions are made by asking ourselves, implicitly or explicitly: What do I perceive as a good, and what are the means…
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Why does science need philosophy?

Many people nowadays are not convinced about why we need philosophy at all. It may have its use historically in providing the preambles of all the other fields of knowledge we have, but that has since been surpassed. Each year newspaper articles appear, calling for the…
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Hva burde vi lære barna?

Anders Torp fortsetter sitt regelmessige oppgjør med sin egen fundamentalistiske oppdragelse. Man kan ha all mulig sympati med hans vonde oppvekstvilkår og rette ditto kritikk mot faren. Men når oppgjøret alltid skal tas i full offentlighet, kan man jo lure på om…