Justice and injustice
There is no absolute right or wrong, justice or injustice. Justice is simply what society agrees to, and can differ from community to community. Discuss.
Archive of entries posted by Robert Hanrott
Plus ca change – again
Just as few adolescents can ever believe that their parents have been through the same stages of attitude and development before them, so one of the more frequently recurrent fallacies has been people’s belief that their own age is without precedent, that some new order is coming to birth in which all the general assumptions …
Happiness at work
Epicurus famously wrote to Menoceus that “…we must meditate on what brings happiness, since if we have that, we have everything. And if we have not, all our energies are directed at gaining it.” He would be surprised to learn that, contrary to expectations, Europeans are happiest when they are satisfied at work, followed by …
Postscript to massacre
The World Health Organization and the Harvard Medical School have conducted a study, which found that 9.6% of Americans suffer from depression or bi-polar disorder, the highest of all the 14 nations surveyed. This represents a higher level of depressed people than Lebanon (6.6%), currently partly obliterated by Israel, Mexico (4.8%),where there are so few …
Beauty in the world
Last night my wife and I attended a piano concert by Evgeny Kissin at the Kennedy Center. Even allowing for the tendency of Washington audiences to give standing ovations to anyone who turns up, this was a quite extraordinary concert, exquisitely played. At the end there were thirty (30) curtain calls that in all lasted …