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Kant’s Categorical Imperative may be a good rule of thumb, but some reinterpretation may be in order.

A simple way to tell if a date will be a good long-term mate is to take notes after the first date. If the pattern seems too similar to your failed mates, do not continue dating.

Do we get angry at being harmed only if we believe someone purposely intended the harm? The “empty boat” parable suggests yes—yet it’s complicated.

Underlying emotional forces make setting boundaries easier said than done.

One classic philosophical dispute is the battle over innate ideas. An innate idea, as the name suggests, is not acquired by experience but is somehow “built into” the mind. Philosophers who accept innate ideas differ about their nature and content.  Leibniz, for example, sees God as the creator innate ideas that exist within the monads….

Narcissistic abuse interrupts the process of becoming yourself. Recovery is about reclaiming who you are.

“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.” We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what qualities of character and spirit we cultivate to come abloom, what follies we…