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Brains, trains, and ethics

Brains, trains, and ethics

Apr 9, 2011

ESSAY QUESTION: making abundant use of course materials, compose a closely reasoned essay answering the following question bearing on one of the course's central themes (ethics and technology).

G.K. Chesterton on fairy tales

G.K. Chesterton on fairy tales

Dec 31, 2009

If you really read the fairy-tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other – the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales. The whole happiness of fairyland hangs upon a thread, upon one thread...