Tag: reassurance
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By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity…
I was never much of a skier; I could do the beginner slopes and even remain upright on the occasional mogul if I followed Girard’s coaxing, but I never enjoyed the challenge like many of my friends. Girard, however, gloried in dares whether on ski slopes or in his rather eclectic social life choices. He…
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What is it like to be a…?
When I first read the philosopher Thomas Nagel’s ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ essay, I was intrigued by his idea that ‘an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism’. It makes sense, doesn’t it? Empathy -the ability…
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