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Editorial

Ethics in Society

by Rick Lewis

Our cover model this month is gorgeous, pouting Karl Marx. Hailing from sunny Trier, Karl is 196 years old, and his hobbies include reading, beard care and expropriating the ruling classes. The theme of this issue of Philosophy Now is ‘Ethics in Society’, a topic which may well have been close to Marx’s heart, though to be honest most of the articles approach the subject in a completely non-Marxist fashion.

Ethics can be about the way we each live our own life, but mostly it is about the ways we interact with one another. We can think about this in two ways: from the perspective of the individual within society, or from the viewpoint of a social reformer.

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