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Social Justice against postmodernism
Remember postmodernism? When I was a student in the 1990s and 2000s, the very French philosophies of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida were all the intellectual rage. Everything was about subverting established paradigms and ways of thinking, showing complexity in things that seemed to be simple. In the early years of Love of All Wisdom…
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Quiz: Mental Illness: 20 Eye-Opening Questions
How Much Do You Actually Know ? You probably know more about mental illness than people did a generation ago. Terms like anxiety, trauma, ADHD, boundaries, narcissism, and self-care have become part of everyday conversation. But with more awareness has come a lot more misinformation. Social media has blurred the line between clinical terms and…
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The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer β philosophy and poetry, scripture and self-help β life stares mutely back at us, immense…
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Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person β a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love β is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly colliding with reality, with the indifference of time and chance,…
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