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As Prof. Dara Fogel of the University of Central Oklahoma says, “philosophy is the means by which disturbances of the soul are cast out. You can never escape your own existential self”. Epicureanism, she says, is the answer. She quotes Professor Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law …
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination spans the world”. Albert Einstein Children are not born with imagination. They have to be taught it and encouraged in it by teachers, by fairy tales and tales of bravery, daring and so on. They have to be read to, told true stories, encouraged to …
At the core of ethics: a command that one try to imagine what it might be like to be someone else. (Alain de Botton). This is the very basis of collective human life. Without empathy and the ability to put yourself in other people’s shoes, all you have is a large collection of selfish and …
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.. (Cicero c. 43 B.C) Plus ca change. But the difference is that the world population in those days was (maybe) 50 million (who knows?). Now it is 8 billion, and of that there is the same proportion of the population …
A great furore has broken out about surveillance by government of anyone deemed to be dissident, via Facebook, Google, Verizon etc. Why is everyone is so surprised? During the disastrous Iraq war this blog fiercely attacked the Bush Administration. More accurately, it poked fun at its incompetence and its ignorance of Iraqi (and Moslem) culture. …
