Marrying the Wrong Person
Alain de Botton ( 1969 – ) penned an astute essay in the New York Times titled: “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.” De Botton is a Swiss-born British author who co-founded The School of Life in 2008.
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Schopenhauer On Wisdom
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what a man has.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer “Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.”~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Finding Fulfilling Work
How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life) My Previous Advice – One of the most difficult things tasks for most of us is finding fulfilling (paid) work in our modern economic system.
Better Off Dead?
Having taught medical ethics for more than a decade, I have spent some time reading, thinking and writing about the subject. In 1994 I published a piece called, “Worse Off Alive: Reply to Garcia” in the American Philosophical Association’s
Darwinian Theories of Human Nature
(This is my summary of a section of a book I often used in university classes: Thirteen Theories of Human Nature, Oxford Univ. Press. There is an outline of the material at the end of the post.)