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The Authenticity Trap (ROLF DOBELLI)

Do you like authentic people? Of course you do. With authentic people you always know where you stand. You know what they think...

17 November, 2022

The Complaint (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

Here, half-way along the road The time has come for me to say Other things are the ones I love I set out for something completely...

16 November, 2022

Genes (JIM AL-KHALILI & JOHNJOE MCFADDEN)

The ability of living organisms to faithfully transmit the instructions to make another of themselves – whether a robin, rhododendron or a person...

15 November, 2022

PRIMA FACIE DUTIES (LOU MARINOFF)

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,...

13 November, 2022

AMOR FATI: HOW TO BECOME INDESTRUCTIBLE (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

Today, at dusk, I went to St. Sergius, locally called Mar Sarkis, from the Aramaic, the cemetery of my side of the family,...

12 November, 2022

Most people lived their lives in a hypnotic form of ‘waking sleep’ (JOHN HIGGS)

Gurdjieff, an imposing and impressively mustachioed Russian who was active in the early to mid-twentieth century, believed that most people lived their lives...

11 November, 2022

-The Consolation of Philosophy (WARBURTON)

Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius (475—525), to give him his full name, was one of the last Roman philosophers. He died just twenty years...

10 November, 2022

Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a type of emotional abuse. Someone who is gaslighting will try to make a targeted person doubt their perception of reality....

08 November, 2022

Egg of Columbus

An egg of Columbus or Columbus' egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo [ˈwɔːvo di koˈlombo]) refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems...

07 November, 2022

This immoderation attracts us but also destroys us (PASCAL BRUCKNER)

For the past half-century we have been pursuing, in the domain of manners and morals, a strange adventure: that of an emancipation that...

06 November, 2022