By G. Owen Schaefer. Sorting and categorization is a classic and sometimes entertaining parlor game. Is a taco a sandwich? Is a couch a chair? Are calculators computers? Other times, though, the stakes are higher, particularly when classification has moral or legal implications – such as the question of whether corporations are people, or whether […]
Category: Bioethics
Sweet melancholies
By Charlotte Duffee. William Blake’s famous painting, Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils, pictures the devil pinning the Old Testament saint to the ground while afflicting his flesh. We see Job in great physical distress: neck bent—almost broken—backwards; fingers splayed stiffly; widened eyes wild with alarm. In his drawing of this same scene, Blake places […]