Tag: emotion

• Why is Wonder?

  Sometimes I am accosted by the strangest questions; they remind me of the unanswerable ‘why’ questions that so often bubble out of 3 year olds -the only difference, I suppose, is that I would no longer be satisfied with the unadorned ‘just because’ answers I’m sure I used to get from my frustrated parents. But […]

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  May 5, 2021

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  Aeon.co, art, City University of New York, emergent phenomenon, emotion, experience, gratitude, Jesse Prinz, knowledge, Paul TIllich, prayer, purpose, questions, religion, René Descartes, retirement, Science, signatures, spiritual, Wonder

• Am I anybody’s keeper?

  Is it possible to understand the world as if you were another person? Or, no matter the effort, would you still be imprisoned within yourself -feeling what you assume you would feel if you were in the same circumstance as her? That what you manage to sample of her condition is inevitably filtered through your […]

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  April 28, 2021

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  Aeon.co, creative imagination, emotion, empathy, feelings, Maria Konnikova, masks, pandemic etiquette, Sherlock Holmes, social distancing, Thomas Nagel, understanding