Is a simpler life a better life?
There is an ambiguity in the very notion of a simple life. There is the zealous desire for a life[…]
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What’s the problem with introversion?
Introversion is to engagement as digestion is to ingestion. We need to feed our minds with good ideas and accurate information, and that requires an attentiveness to the world and others incompatible with pathological navel-gazing. But having done so, none of that helps us to grow mentally unless we can chew it over, digest what is nutritious and expel the waste.
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THE GUARDIAN’S BIG IDEAS PODCAST. Written about 380BC, Plato’s Republic is still our blueprint for thinking about the relationship between[…]
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The Ego Trick
“In this entertaining, educative and gracefully written book, Julian Baggini explores the question of the nature of the self and in what sense it persists through time. … This is one of the best, most readable and most stimulating introductions yet written about this intriguing topic. Enjoy, and profit.” AC Grayling in the FT.
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