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Entries Tagged as 'religion and belief'

19. What is wellbeing?

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

 
icon for podpress  Mark Vernon: Wellbeing [14:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mark Vernon has just brought out a book on wellbeing in a new series of which he’s general editor. But this isn’t a run-of-the-mill self-help series.
The series is called The Art of LivingĀ  and it’s published by independent philosophy specialist, Acumen. Their stated aim is to “open up philosophy’s riches to a wider public once […]

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17. “Unstitching the carefully tailored suit”

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

 
icon for podpress  Simon Critchley: The Book of Dead Philosophers [24:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The book is written against the view that a philosopher’s biography is of no importance and that philosophy can be reduced to a series of systems of thought.
It’s really an attempt to rewrite the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers. That was the way that philosophy was taught until the eighteenth century.
“So in […]

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What’s the big idea?

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

In May I made a number of recordings for this year’s Bristol Festival of Ideas, a series of very popular events which brought some high-powered thinkers to the city to stimulate discussion on subjects as diverse as the legacy of ‘68 to why the human brain is not quite ‘fit for purpose’.
I’m editing my interviews […]

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