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Paula Satne
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Moral philosopher and ethics lecturer. Views are my own. Working on Ethics & Politics, Forgiveness, Memory, Kant, Peace.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 21
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I argue that the Kantian project of moral transformation, which involves repenting immoral maxims, can also be understood as a form of flourishing and self-affirmation, which includes the pursuit of happiness as one of its components.
Paula Satne, Moral Development, Repentance, and Self-Affirmation - PhilPapers
This article engages closely with David Owen’s ‘Autonomy, Self-Respect, and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency.’ Owen argues that Kant tried, but ultimately failed, to resolve the tension between ...
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · Aug 7
The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!
idea-leeds.bsky.social IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · Jul 23
The Future of Practical Ethics
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025

Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

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Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · Jul 17
My latest article about AI in online dating with @nmckeever3.bsky.social in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ai-can-be-yo...
AI can be your wingman when online dating – but should you let it?
Apps and users might be hopeful that Gen-AI can make dating apps fun again.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · Aug 7
The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!
idea-leeds.bsky.social IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · Jul 23
The Future of Practical Ethics
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025

Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · Jun 16
"Bluesky is dead."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky...
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Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · Jun 13
#NewArticle Rethinking the Ethics of GenAI in Higher Education: A Critique of Moral Arguments and Policy Implications | Karl de Fine Licht #philsky #philosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UHQUJW...
Rethinking the Ethics of GenAI in Higher Education: A Critique of Moral Arguments and Policy Implications
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IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · May 6
Ethicists have raised concerns about these systems, and these concerns are worth taking seriously, but Dr Nick Makins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, thinks they can be answered, & that the use of these systems can be justified, at least in some circumstances.
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IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · May 6
Have you booked your space on our public lecture with Gavin Esler?
idea-leeds.bsky.social IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · Feb 13
Meet our speaker for the 20th anniversary public lecture we are holding on Tuesday 17th June, Gavin Esler.
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IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · May 19
In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social Jim Baxter speaks to Luke Ulas, University of Sheffield and Josh Hobbs from IDEA about Cosmopolitanism - "the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."
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IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · May 13
Join us for a 20th anniversary lecture by journalist & author Gavin Esler, examining the crisis of trust in politics & media. He'll discuss themes from his book, Britain Is Better Than This, focusing on "the politics of distraction" & ways to rebuild trust in public life.
book here: buff.ly/lGAbhA2
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · Jun 2
New Issue of Journal of Applied Philosophy with a Special Issue on Commemorating Evildoers edited by me and Oliver Hallich #philsky #philosophy @idea-leeds.bsky.social
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Dan Kilpatrick @dankp.bsky.social · May 22
Read on Spurs’ big night for today’s @thelondonstandard.bsky.social. What it means, how they did it and where they — and Postecoglou — might go from here: www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...
Europa League win changes everything for Spurs as club eye new future
Ange Postecoglou makes good on his promise to end 17-year trophy drought on a momentous night in Bilbao
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Cartilage Free Captain @cartilagefree.bsky.social · May 22
Tottenham's Europa League Championship is more than just a peice of silverware. It's a fundamental reshaping of the club and what it means to be Spurs.
This means EVERYTHING.
Tottenham Hotspur’s Europa League victory is not just silverware. It represents a fundamental reshaping of the club.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 21
It is in fair (or at least fairer) social and political conditions that we can pursue both moral and personal ends and flourish.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 21
Ultimately, in the Kantian picture, the task of moral self-improvement also has a social dimension: we must avoid being complicit with the injustices of our time and instead work towards overturning them.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 21
However, although morality and happiness are not intrinsically incompatible, they are likely to conflict under unstable and unjust external conditions. Thus, the extent to which we can live a completely morally good life is not independent of social and political conditions.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 21
On this reading, far from endorsing an ‘ascetic ideal’ of the moral agent, Kant embraces an ideal of the human life in which there is significant space, and even a duty, to pursue pleasurable endeavours.
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 21
philpapers.org/rec/SATMDR-2

I argue that the Kantian project of moral transformation, which involves repenting immoral maxims, can also be understood as a form of flourishing and self-affirmation, which includes the pursuit of happiness as one of its components.
Paula Satne, Moral Development, Repentance, and Self-Affirmation - PhilPapers
This article engages closely with David Owen’s ‘Autonomy, Self-Respect, and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency.’ Owen argues that Kant tried, but ultimately failed, to resolve the tension between ...
philpapers.org
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 18
The introduction to the Special Issue 'Commemorating Evildoers' is out (pre-view). I am told the whole issue will come out soon. Co-edited with Hallich for Journal of Applied Philosophy #ethics @idea-leeds.bsky.social

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Introduction
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Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · May 15
Public lecture at @idea-leeds.bsky.social by Journalist Gavin Esler. He’ll be asking how to restore trust to public life. Free to attend!
idea-leeds.bsky.social IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · May 13
Join us for a 20th anniversary lecture by journalist & author Gavin Esler, examining the crisis of trust in politics & media. He'll discuss themes from his book, Britain Is Better Than This, focusing on "the politics of distraction" & ways to rebuild trust in public life.
book here: buff.ly/lGAbhA2
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · May 8
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.
American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope
The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.
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Warwick Philosophy @philoswarwick.bsky.social · Mar 31
🎙️ What makes the master’s dominance over the slave morally wrong? In this episode of Daybreak we sit down with @joe-saunders.bsky.social to break open Hegel's master-slave dialectic 🔥 #philsky #PhilosophyMatters 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2KPe...
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Warwick Philosophy @philoswarwick.bsky.social · Mar 31
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Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic Unpacked
Podcast Episode · Daybreak · 03/31/2025 · 49m
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Paula Satne @pausat25.bsky.social · May 6
Fantastic opportunity for prospective PhD students!

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IDEA 20th Anniversary Scholarship
Project opportunity - IDEA 20th Anniversary Scholarship at the University of Leeds
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IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · Jan 31
As part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to welcome Heather Widdows who will be presenting a public lecture entitled "The Future of Applied Ethics and the role and Progress of IDEA". please book your space at this Eventbrite link:
https://buff.ly/4aAuWjt
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IDEA The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · Jan 31
As part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to welcome Gavin Esler who will be presenting a public lecture entitled "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying & Truth Decay".
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