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New Philosopher #42 ‘Loss’
“Great lords, wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.” - William Shakespeare If being…
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Philosophy and you
Life is a war
There’s a type of person who will tell you that life is a war, or at least, that we should approach it as if…
Being Human
Generational conflict
“Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man,” contends the Jesuit saying, which was popularised by the…
Being Human
The meaning of intelligence
When police traced the origins of a red laser dot to the third-floor window of the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, they were surprised to…
Being Human
Ex machina
"The truly scary part of AI... is not the thought that we can be replaced by unfree rule-following machines. It’s the intimation AI provides…
Being Human
Flourish by Antonia Case selling out fast
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
Being Human
Australian book tour for Antonia Case’s Flourish
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
Ideas to change your life
Mental decluttering
Despite his short life, the nineteenth century American author Henry David Thoreau has become an enduring symbol of not one, but two popular tropes.…
Ideas to change your life
News from nowhere: Destined for dopamine
In a laboratory at Runwell Hospital near London, researcher Kathleen Montagu discovered something that explains a lot about you, and plenty about your friends…
Happiness
News from nowhere: Food for thought
“All the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own room,” wrote Blaise Pascal.…
Philosophy and you
Being well distracted
At the tail end of breakfast at a hotel in Lourdes, France, a man enters the room accompanied by a cacophony of glass-shattering screams…
Opinion
Deep distraction
Last year, I attended a conference at a country house hotel that boasted a slightly battered baby grand in its lounge. From the moment…