Medicine Unboxed
MEDICINE UNBOXED – CHELTENHAM, 21/22 NOVEMBER. Speaking as part of two days of exploration of life and death and the lines[…]
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The Philosophy Festival
FRONT FACING PHILOSOPHY – OXFORD, 7 NOVEMBER. For the final event in the Blackwell’s/OUP festival, some of the best known authors explore[…]
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Something has changed and that appears to be an increased desire to choose what is best for ourselves with scant regard for what is best for the wider community as a whole. And this seems equally true of too many left-leaning middle class parents who join the chorus decrying selfish individualism and advocating collective solidarity, even while taking off on their mid-term holiday.
ReadMust we get to the bottom of things?
Simply accepting that there are no ultimate grounds for anything looks like a cop-out. Surely, we must have some good reason to trust the firmness of the ground on which we stand, intellectually?
ReadSelf East and West (Part 1)
The first of three podcasts on conceptions of self, East and West, looks at how the self needs to be cultivated.
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