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Why do we find rejection so upsetting? After all, it’s almost never life-threatening to be rejected. The reason lies in our interdependence. Human beings need one another in order to thrive, particularly at the beginning of our lives. During that period of development the baby will die if there is no one there to look …
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and …
Yet another of my modern philosophy posts. This completes my take on the three main monotheisms. You can read my views on Islam here http://hanrott.com/blog/epicurus-and-islam/, and on Christianity here http://hanrott.com/blog/epicurus-and-christianity/. Out of the three Abrahamic monotheisms, Judaism is perhaps the most unique. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it does not aspire to convert large portions of the world …
I recently got an article published in a student-run magazine. It talks about feminism and its relationship with conservatism. You can read it here https://www.femini.space/blog/2017/8/25/is-a-feminist-conservative-an-oxymoron-owen-bell. I’ll be back tomorrow with a proper post.
While Theresa May was Home Secretary the Home office put out a statistic that claimed that 100,000 foreign students a year stayed on illegally after their visas expired. This “fact” was used by the Brexiteers in their campaign as proof of uncontrolled immigration. But new data from the Office of National Statistics says there were …
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