How Can We Define Love? How is love different from liking or friendship? Love is characterised by: 1. Exclusivity; 2. Constancy; 3. Reciprocity; 4. Uniqueness; and 5. Irrepleaceability of the beloved. (more...)
September 26: Happy Birthday, Martin Heidegger! September 26: Martin Heidegger’s Birthday (1889-1976) (more...)
Hacker culture and Hesse’s Glass Bead Game What’s wrong with the world and how to fix it. Hermann Hesse’s ‘The Glass Bead Game’ may be his greatest novel. It combines a theory of history and education with Zen, and meditations on friendship and duty. (more...)
