“But the dispiriting thing about contemporary Stoicism is how slippery it has become, toothless practically to the point of meaninglessness…all religions have reform versions and adherents who push against orthodoxy. But cafeteria Stoicism has become diluted into the...
I read this article in The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), and I was left mystified as to the silence of our decision-makers, as the same scenario rolled out in Australia, and locally, since 1992. Let's check and read the statements of the article. The...
Since I am suffering in the silence to my humanities-social science messaging, I will go to the message of the Philosophy of Science, from Philip R. Hall. Phil Hall is Wissenshschaftlicher, and editor at arsnotoria.com ...
Dear friends, Yes, to life affirmation, irrespective of the colour we "choice to place" on the canvas, and where we place the splash in our brief moment of time. As a general point among the thoughts of the global educated classes, here is the difference...
Dear friends, The timing of this ABC story and Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality (2023), could not be better for me: “But will his colleagues listen to him?” But will my...
A scholarly colleague of mine wrote in a response to a recent story about the malpractice in academic publishing: Perhaps due to big incentive to write to get published, and not to innovate . Academia has...
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In Either/Or Søren Kierkegaard marks " the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment." Today we have, Either "to allow for universities which are teaching only" Or universities...