Do you like authentic people? Of course you do. With authentic people you always know where you stand. You know what they think and feel, what they’re doing and what they’ve got in mind. Such guileless individuals make no secret of what’s below the surface,...
Prima facie means “at first glance” This system, an outgrowth of virtue ethics, originated in the twentieth century with applied ethicist William Ross. It views each human being as a participant in a social contract, from which we derive certain legal rights and moral benefits, and to which we owe certain legal duties and moral obligations. In civilized countries, citizens...
Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius (475—525), to give him his full name, was one of the last Roman philosophers. He died just twenty years before Rome fell to the barbarians. But in his lifetime Rome was already going downhill. Like his fellow Romans Cicero and Seneca,...
Gaslighting is a type of emotional abuse. Someone who is gaslighting will try to make a targeted person doubt their perception of reality. The gaslighter may convince the target that their memories are wrong or that they are overreacting to an event. The abuser may...
An egg of Columbus or Columbus' egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo [ˈwɔːvo di koˈlombo]) refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact. The expression refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 16th century, in which...
For the past half-century we have been pursuing, in the domain of manners and morals, a strange adventure: that of an emancipation that both liberates and oppresses us. Many taboos have fallen, but on their ruins new injunctions have proliferated. These injunctions are different in that...
So people are passing from one woman to another woman, to another woman, to another woman; from one man, to another man, to another man; from one business to another business, from one job to another job - in the pursuit of happiness. And strangely,...
For it is not to be expected that a sociable guest or a wild crony should be bound by the same "Chains of respect, forged by no human hand", as one who was nourished from the same breast and carries the same blood in his...
It was 47 bc. Julius Caesar stood before his army, the most powerful that Rome had ever assembled. For fifteen years they had marched through Europe, fighting Germans, Gauls, and even other renegade Roman armies. They had crossed the English Channel to become the first Romans...
Orpheus was the son of Apollo and Calliope, one of the nine Muses. A talented musician, he played the lyre to such perfection that even Apollo was amazed. Nothing could resist his music, neither mortals nor Gods. The young man fell in love with Eurydice, a...
