December 2011
7 posts
“We invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day: the...”
– Alain de Botton
13 albums of the year 2011
In no particular order
Kuedo — Severant
PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
Ghostpoet — Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
Jamie Woon — Mirrorwriting
SBTRKT — SBTRKT
Wild Beasts — Smother
Pinch & Shackleton — Pinch & Shackleton
Radiohead — TKOL (+remixes)
Balam Acab — Balam Acab
Horrors — Skying
Jamie XX & Gil Scott Heron — I’m New Here
Zomby — Dedication & Nothing
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“I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take...”
– Steve Jobs
The moral importance of money
Mr Sikorski (who studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford) then paid a nice tribute to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who highlighted the moral importance of money. Kant, he noted, had argued that:
“the entire practice of lending money presupposed at least the honest intention to repay. If this condition were universally ignored, the very idea of lending and sharing...