Tag Archives: Jim Crawford

Andy Nowicki’s Considering Suicide

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on November 27, 2010

Andy Nowicki’s book ‘Considering Suicide’ belongs to, what I would call, the cultural alienation genre. Nowicki’s alienation is not of the Marxist variety that rails against division of labor and harbors the juvenile desire that all work should be play. … Continue reading →

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Jim Crawford against natural rights

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on August 4, 2010

Jim Crawford’s autobiographical antinatalist manifesto Confessions of an Antinatalist(review here) contains an illuminating perspective on the idea of natural rights: Concurrent with our wish to understand the human condition through over-simplification is our tendency to ground human desire and behavior … Continue reading →

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