Why We All Need Science and Religion to Work Together (even if we think we...
Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it must come from another source. Albert Einstein...
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What Everybody Needs to Know About Thinking for Yourself
Thinking for yourself is not about following every whimsical notion and desire and doing just as you please. Thinking for yourself means doing your utmost to work out how you should act and then being...
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Search For Truth
In Plato‘s Republic, he asks us to imagine a Cave in which prisoners live from birth. These prisoners are chained in such a way that they can’t move their heads or bodies, therefore they all face the...
View ArticleSelflessness
You can’t forget what you don’t know. Take driving as an example. When you become a confident and competent driver you’re no longer conscious of every single thing you do as you drive – in effect you...
View ArticleHumility and Learning
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates – in Plato’s Apology. It is important that we constantly try to gain all the knowledge we can about the...
View ArticleChaotic Butterflies
In ordinary life chaos means disorder – random, disorganised confusion. In science it means something entirely different – it means apparent randomness. In other words, things that appear to be...
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Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist. In the most wonderful and peaceful of worlds, completely free of war and...
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The Moral Molecule
In an experiment to examine the effects of the hormone oxytocin on social interaction, neuroeconomist Paul Zak made some interesting discoveries. For the purposes of the study they chose to look...
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