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- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
- Leftovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
- Cynics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020