Work for itself or work for oneself?
Exploration, Acquisition, and Conquest, Then and Now
As professions and areas of study grow formalized and take on codes of ethics (either generated by their practitioners or inherited from the broader sociocultural landscape), this can lead to complicated assessments of the actions of our predecessors, where what we might view as “simple, foundational ethical principles” are challenged.
Richard Burton’s l…
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