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Rachael Wiseman
In Memory of Mary Midgley
A philosopher of peerless conviction, whose work dared to make sense of 'this deeply puzzling world'
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Barry Allen
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According to the Ethiopian philosopher, the heart is a cradle of wisdom, not irrationality
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A philosopher of peerless conviction, whose work dared to make sense of 'this deeply puzzling world'
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Busyness is the sign of a deeply unhappy person, and a way to flee from one's own life
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To cultivate success, rather than exhaustion, education must rediscover the role of leisure
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Zara Yaqob and The Rationality of the Human Heart
According to the Ethiopian philosopher, the heart is a cradle of wisdom, not irrationality
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A philosopher of peerless conviction, whose work dared to make sense of 'this deeply puzzling world'
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Busyness is the sign of a deeply unhappy person, and a way to flee from one's own life
Countering the Achievement Society
To cultivate success, rather than exhaustion, education must rediscover the role of leisure
Can We Reinvent Ourselves? An Existentialist View
Sartre and Beauvoir disagreed on the tension between our freedom, and our power
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Both Heidegger and Miyazaki offer answers to our age's vital question of how technology and nature can co-exist
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Can any philosopher catch up with Bowie's fluid notion of identity? Hume might, just about
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They don't require sacrifice or exclusivity yet they may bring light upon what real qualities are worth loving
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