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Dec 2019
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The Dark and the Digital | Nigel Inkster...

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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes The anonymity of the internet has enabled an epidemic of abuse. Was Hobbes right after all, and humankind are at core wicked and requiring constraint? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, former director at MI6 Nigel Inkster, assistant editor at Spiked Ella Whelan, r ... Show More
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