Some philosophers whose work I read in 2020 that I didn't really know before
Wang Yangming (1472–1529), neo-Confucian Chinese philosopher and general
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pragmatist
Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian anarchist. 1/

I think an interesting thread that unites all of them, though they lived and worked in different times and places, is the notion that we are all interconnected and interdependent. It's such an important insight, as we are all experiencing now 2/

And yet, most western societies do not have the notion of interdependence in what Mary Midgley would call their "philosophical plumbing". Western societies still have the weird belief that technology alone (vaccines, green tech etc) will bail us out of any problems 3/