Thursday, 19 May 2016

A philosophical approach to the refugee crisis (Santiago Zabala, Al Jazeera)

A Syrian man helps a girl to disembark from a dinghy after the arrival of refugees and migrants from the Turkish coast to Mytilene, Lesbos island, Greece. [AP]

"When it comes to political deliberation," as the great pragmatic philosopher Richard Rorty once said, "philosophy is a good servant but a bad master." Even though the discipline is equipped with an array of the finest intellectual concepts and arguments, it should always avoid recommending straightforward solutions

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/philosophical-approach-refugee-crisis-160518085217437.html

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