"Suppose you have two friends, James and Joanna, who are becoming increasingly fond of each other. At some point you r…"

"It is striking that the idea of a moral being without ordinary human limitations as the source of the moral demand su…"

"It is basically a bad idea to take some area of human thought and experience that has been the locus of careful analy…"

"The idea of obligation is rationally unstable without the accompanying idea of a sufficiently good and powerful oblig…"

"For Kant, the predisposition to good (like Calvin’s ‘seed of goodness’) is in one way more fundamental to us than the…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in…"