Evil versus Tragedy
Many things are tragic – natural disasters, premature death, illness and so on. These are not caused by…
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What Everybody Needs to Know About Thinking for Yourself
Thinking for yourself is not about following every whimsical notion and desire and doing just as you please.…
What Everybody Needs to Know About Our Actions
In 1851, American physician, Samuel A. Cartwright presented a medical paper on a disease called drapetomania. This ‘illness’…
What Everybody Needs to Know About Emergence
What are emergent systems? In his book, Emergence – the Collected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, Steven…
What Everybody Needs to Know About Cooperation
In the 1980s, political scientist Robert Axlerod ran a number of computer tournaments to try to discover which…
What Everyone Needs to Know about Why Good People Do Bad Things.
In 1971, Dr. Philip Zimbardo and his team at Stanford University conducted an experiment designed to understand the…
Why You Need to Practise Being Just (even if you think you already know how)
Justice isn’t simply a matter of jurisprudence. It’s a way to look at the world. Justice is like…
Why You Need Education for Girls (even if you’re a boy)
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a…
Why You Need Fair Trade (even if you have fair wages)
Right now the West dominates world trade and many people in other parts of the world are exploited…
Why You Need the Eradication of Prejudice (even if you don’t belong to a marginalised group)
The Oxford Dictionary defines prejudice as, a preconceived idea not based on reason or actual experience. We all think…