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...think they ought to be able to do. It suggests that religion is more like a hobby than a serious pursuit, and can lead to public acts of religion being seen as ‘extremism’. But this is not the only way of thinking about what religion is, and what the relationship between it and the state should be. [Religious toleration: church gate] Over to you What do you think the...

...system, and should still be seen as responsible for many of its evils. The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the New World. Whatever the effect of slavery on Africa, there can be no doubt that the use of black slaves played a crucial part in the economic development of the New World, above all by making up for shortages of labour. Here, and in other places of European...

...think that if that is all it takes to be a philosopher then we are all philosophers. This seems to me an altogether happy conclusion: we all do philosophy at least some of the time. To put things another way, philosophy is an activity, rather than a body of knowledge. What kind of activity? Thinking. What kind of thinking? Here there does not seem to be any hard-and-fast...