The Still Face
Humans are social beings. We’re not the only ones on the planet but we most definitely belong to…
Category: Philosophy
Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist.…
Chaotic Butterflies
In ordinary life chaos means disorder – random, disorganised confusion. In science it means something entirely different –…
An Answer to Evil
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear…
God couldn’t be everywhere…
God couldn’t be everywhere, so He created mothers – or so the Jewish proverb goes. Mothers like, Las…
Ubuntu
The Nigerian writer, Chris Abani describes the African philosophical concept of Ubuntu as, “…the only way for me to…
The Women of Rosenstrasse
We have become so result oriented that we have moved away from doing what we believe is right…
Tsunami of Good
If you take each tiny ethical action and add it to the next tiny ethical action and continue…
The Banality of Heroism
Philip Zimbardo, the psychiatrist in charge of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment has a new venture – he’s…
Search For Truth
In Plato‘s Republic, he asks us to imagine a Cave in which prisoners live from birth. These prisoners…