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Posts Tagged "Existentialism"

Posted by on 15 Jun, 2012 | 0 comments

News: C4 series on Death & Dying
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Love Productions is making a primetime Channel 4 series about people who are on a journey to death as a consequence of life limiting illnesses.  The aim of this series is to present the subject of death to a mainstream audience in an open and honest way; thereby adding to the wider debate about how we [...]

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Posted by Libby Webber (see more…) on 17 May, 2012 | 0 comments

Book review: ‘Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty’
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Empathy is the ability to see someone else's experiences as if they were your own, but what's the scientific basis of it? And what does empathy have to do with 'the problem of evil'?

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Posted by Libby Webber (see more…) on 11 Mar, 2012 | 0 comments

Article: ‘The meaning of life’
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Life can seem meaningless at times, but one existential philosophy takes the view that it's the search for meaning that defines the most basic of human drives.

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