Quote of the day
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Hugo Adam Bedau
Born: September 23, 1926
Died: August 13, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Known for:
- In Spite Of Innocence (1992)
- From Critical Thinking to Argument
- Thinking and writing about philosophy (1996)
- Killing as Punishment (2004)