It sounds normal to say one's out to become a fitter person; but it sounds weird to say one would like to be a nicer or better person. It shouldn't - so here is a guide to 10 virtues of a nice person. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/jpBF
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The idea of ‘atonement’ sounds very old-fashioned and is deeply rooted in religious tradition. To atone means, in essence, to acknowledge one’s capacity for wrongness and one’s readiness for apology and desire for change. It’s a concept that every society needs at its center. For gifts and
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Life constantly forces us to make very big and often very painful decisions. When we are next facing such a choice, here is a small exercise that could help us to know our own minds more clearly. For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://goo.gl/at6c4Y Join
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The Advantages of Being 'just Good Friends'
We're used to thinking of the state of friendship as hugely inferior compared with that of being in a relationship. But comparing how most people behave in a couple, compared with how they are in a friendship, should perhaps lead us to reconsider our choices. For gifts and more from The
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How to Cope If the Worst Came to the Worst..
Many of us suffer enormous anxieties about what might happen if the worst came to the worst. Well-meaning friends often reassure us that things might go really well, but there is often great relief to be found in imagining the darkest scenarios and being able to see that we could, ultimate
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What Should We Maximise? Peter Singer on Utilitarianism
Consequentialists hold that the right action is the one that brings about the best consequences. Some non-consequentialists also hold that, when choosing between actions that do not violate any non-consequentialist constraints, we should do what will bring about the best consequences, and
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Is It Better to Be Polite or Frank?
We live in an age that thinks highly of frankness and directness. But there are – nevertheless – a few reasons why politeness remains a hugely important quality. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/hMBQQs FURTHER READING “For most of hu
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Oxford 4d Of the Necessary Connection
A course by Peter Millican from Oxford University. Course Description: Dr Peter Millican gives a series of lectures looking at Scottish 18th Century Philosopher David Hume and the first book of his Treatise of Human Nature. Taken from: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/introduction-david
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How to Be a Better Person in 2018
Making resolutions to be a better person is a hugely important activity - even if we can't always stick to every last one. Here is a list of suggested moves for how to be a slightly nicer person to live around in the new year. For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online s
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Richard P. Feynman: Theory, Prediction, Observation
Richard P. Feynman Lecture #7 Cornell University 1964 My personal favorite min of these lectures occurs from 16:36 to 17:36, but keep going to at least 23:36
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Как работает рынок и что такое обмен – Сергей Гуриев
✦ Современная экономика России / Курс лекций экономиста Сергея Гуриева: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy7FxfNoucMExd0QdKyDfly4EIRtYed-G Лекция 4/21 / Курс Сергея Гуриева "Дорога к рынку" "Цена любого вопроса": - Откуда берутся цены? 00:26 - Как рынок узнает правильную цену? 01
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Logic: The Structure of Reason
As a tool for characterizing rational thought, logic cuts across many philosophical disciplines and lies at the core of mathematics and computer science. Drawing on Aristotle’s Organon, Russell’s Principia Mathematica, and other central works, this program tracks the evolution of logic, be
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Readings and Misreadings of Primitive Accumulation
Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She works on ancient Greek philosophy and Marxist and feminist theory. She is the author of Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (2013); Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On Wh
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02 05 Part 2 of 3 Model Selection
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Omer Offen : Distinction by a symmetric subgroup
Recording during the thematic Jean-Morlet Chair - Doctoral school: "Introduction to relative aspects in representation theory, Langlands functoriality and automorphic forms" the May 17, 2016 at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Marseille, France) Filmmaker: Guillaume H
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An Antidote to the Politics of Despair - Deva Woodly
Public Lecture: Deva Woodly Friday, May 13, 2016 Enabling Conceptions of Justice and the Democratic Necessity of Insurgency Using the work of Iris Young, Amartya Sen, and John Dewey, along with the empirical case of the contemporary Movement for Black Lives, Deva Woodly, Member (2012–13
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What Kinds of Entities can have a Good? - A Natural History of the Good 3
Christine Korsgaard gives her third Pufendorf lecture called "What Kinds of Entities can have a Good?" in this series on "A Natural History of the Good". The general aim of these lectures is to defend a conception of the Good that is compatible with a naturalistic conception of the world,
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Jesse Couenvhoven - Is Evil Necessary in God's World?
If we seek God, we cannot avoid the problem of evil. Can the enormity of evil ever be compatible with an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God? Couldn't God have created the world without such evil? Click here to watch more interviews on evil http://bit.ly/2bCgbjU Click here to watch m
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
The U.S. Current Account Deficit & the Global Economy
Recorded in October 2004, Lawrence H. Summers discusses the economic future of the U.S. in the global world.
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