Jacques Rousseau
Jacques Rousseau teaches critical thinking and ethics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
A ‘temple to atheism’
de Botton offered a distinction without a difference with atheism 2.0, and now he wants us to build temples to atheism.
The privilege in not finding things offensive
A recent complaint to the ASA regarding a River’s Church billboard undermines arguments against the censure of potentially offensive speech. But are those arguments weakened in general through the privileged position they emerge from?
So now non-racialism is racist too
The DASO campaign featuring an inter-racial couple has been described as racist by some Twitterati, as well as by a few Facebookers. But that reading makes little sense, and seems little more than an example of confirmation bias.
Alain de Botton’s Atheism 2.0
Alain de Botton’s recent TED Talk on Atheism 2.0 seems to say not very much at all.
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