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Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
Written by Julian Baggini
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.
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The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
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The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.
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Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
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Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
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If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
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Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
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Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
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Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
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Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
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Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
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Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
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It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
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In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
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Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.
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The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
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To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.
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Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
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It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
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Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
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Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
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Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
Written by Julian Baggini
Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
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Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
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There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
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$No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.$

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
Written by Julian Baggini
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
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Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.
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Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
Written by Julian Baggini

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