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Vol 8 No 2 Summer 2024

Orwell’s Ethics

Who cares what George Orwell thought about ethics? He was not a writer whose moral philosophy was absorbed directly into social practice — not a Leo Tolstoy, whose ideas gave rise to a global anarcho-pacificist movement. On the contrary, Orwell’s ethical thought was reduced almost immediately to a rhetorical football in the influence games of the […]

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