QA 3. (Mar 08) Are we coping yet?

  • Posted by Helen Douglas
  • On April 12, 2008
We mostly notice it when we’re losing it, already at the edge. Overburdened camels observing the arrival of one. more. straw. We gird our loins, call out the reserves, hope for a second wind (or a third or a tenth). Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Medical literature describes babies who don’t gain weight […]
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QA 2. (Feb 08) A question of shame

  • Posted by Helen Douglas
  • On April 12, 2008
A Cape Town woman, convicted – yet again – of fraud, was sentenced to stand in a public street wearing a sign that listed her crimes, and apologise to those she had harmed. A higher court reviewing the sentence overturned it on the grounds that such public shaming violated the constitutional principle of human dignity. […]
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QA 1. (Jan 08) Far too important to leave to philosophers

  • Posted by Helen Douglas
  • On April 12, 2008
Part of my mission as a counselling philosopher is the desire to encourage the revival of philosophy as it was originally practiced, as a way of life. To encourage people to think more deeply about what matters to them. Philosophy is not just an academic endeavour of the very few, engaged in arcane arguments about […]
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