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If Morality were a Library

If morality were a library, John Stuart Mill constructed the first two floors and Søren Kierkegaard attached a third with a large skylight. Mill, whose vision involves only a two-story library, takes great issue with the extra floor and even more with the skylight. He complains that the skylight offers no benefit to the rest of the library; in fact, when the skylight is opened, falling rain makes all the books on the top floor damp and unreadable for days. In particularly drafty months, Continue reading

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