Category: Philosophy & Ethics
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The Science of Happiness
The essence of happiness is the psychological stance that we take towards what we have.
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The Essence of Stoicism – Part 2
The essence of the Stoic pursuit is to attain to the distanced perspective, to attain to the cosmic consciousness of the sage.
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The Essence of Stoicism – Part 1
The core endeavour of Stoicism is to reduce one’s troubles to a more trivial dimension. It is to ensure that ones troubles are no longer troubling.
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Do We Live in a Dog Eat Dog World?
The slogan “this is a dog eat dog world” is regularly used even though this is not a world which contains a large amount of dogs getting eaten by other dogs.
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Do we Need to Re-think Society?
When ‘takers’ collude a society begins to disintegrate.
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Economics: The Study of Legitimate Transaction
In fact, when considering the issue of economy, I have found it useful to reduce the magnitude of the basic constituent unit of the economy even further than individual people to the individual transaction.
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The Wisdom of Knowing that You Do not Know
What we need to cultivate in place of our assumptions and opinions is a curious mind. Don’t make up your mind before you know, wait with an open and curious mind and find out the truth of the matter.
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Lessons From the Philosophy of the Ancients
Poetry such as the Iliad and the Odyssey expresses the divine perspective of the ideal observer who, though deeply concerned, is in a state of complete joy.
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We are All Only Human
We are all only human.We are constituted in such a way to fall short of our ideals.
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Lets Return to Virtue: Being a Good Human Being
As a society we would do well to remember the wisdom of the ancients. Aristotle defined happiness as an “activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue.”