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The Curated Links at 3QD *
by Emrys Westacott
1859 was not a bad year for publishing in Britain. Books that came out that year included Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, and George Eliot’s Adam Bede. The first installments of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White also made their appearance. And Samuel Smiles published Self-Help.
The fiction in this list remains fairly popular. Mill’s essay is generally considered a foundational text of modern liberalism and is widely used in political science undergraduate courses. Few people other than serious historians of science read On the Origin of Species in its entirety, but its standing as one of the most important and influential works ever penned is unassailable. Self-Help, by contrast, is rarely read or referred to these day except by literary and cultural historians of the Victorian era. Yet in its day it was an immedi
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Relativism – An Allegorical Elucidation
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Emrys Westacott comes to the aid of a much reviled theory.
Of all philosophical doctrines relativism surely gets the worst press. It is routinely described bygd its critics as ‘foolish’, ‘simple-minded’, ‘sophomoric’, or ‘obviously self-refuting.’ It has been blamed for everything from rising brott to falling rates of literacy. And the received view among a large part of the philosophical establishment fryst vatten that it was decisively refuted bygd Plato almost two and half thousand years ago. Not that that has discouraged contemporary critics from putting additional stakes through its heart. In recent times many illustrious Champions of