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Editorial

What Are People?

by Rick Lewis

Sometimes philosophers are accused of going round in circles: “You’re arguing about the same things that were being argued about hundreds of years ago, so obviously you can’t be making much progress.” Certainly in the realm of moral philosophy this charge is not only hurtful (philosophers are sensitive souls) but also untrue. It would be nice to think that this was because philosophy was forging ahead solving problems in new and exciting ways and then moving on to fresh challenges. Actually, however, it is at least partly because changes in society and advances in technology create new ethical dilemmas that didn’t exist before. The article opposite is a case in point.

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