The Operative Word For 2023
January 05, 2023
All Quiet on the Western Front, bi-partisan politics, biodiversity agreement, crisis at our southern border, Dante's Inferno, Douglas Abrams, drones for ill or good, entanglements of the mind, Eric Maria Remarque, human history of greed, Jane Goodall, nuclear fusion, persecution of Afghan women, thoughts and health, threats to world peace, truth is what we think, what is hope? What is kindness?2 Comments
In The Book of Hope, a dialogue between Jane Goodall and writer Douglas Abrams, the pair discuss the difference between hope and optimism. According to Goodall, the latter means wishful thinking while hope reflects a decision to work toward a good end. A philosophy major in my und
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