Group Virtues: No Great Leap Forward with Collectivism

Group Virtues: No Great Leap Forward with Collectivism

A body of work in ethics and epistemology has advanced a collectivist view of virtues. Collectivism holds that some social groups can be subjects in themselves which can possess attributes such as agency or responsibility. Collectivism about virtues holds that virtues (and vices) are among those attributes. By focusing on two different accounts, I argue that the collectivist virtue project has ...

Great leap forward

One of Europe’s rarest small mammals — the flying squirrel — has been given a boost to save it from extinction, sparing the Finnish government from legal action by the European Commission. The Finnish government has changed its law to protect the squirrels and paid out one million euros in compensation to about 400 farmers and landowners who have to curb normal activities for the squirrels’ saf...

The great leap forward

Similarly, the theory of genome duplication, which was first seriously developed in 1970 by the Japaneseborn geneticist Susumu Ohno (1970), also cannot properly explain the great phenotypic changes that have occurred during the 75 million years since the human and mouse lineages split. Duplications, either of chromosomal regions or of whole genomes, occur naturally, for example, through errors ...

China's next great leap forward.

Waiting for the great leap forward.