QA 28. The freedoms of choice
April 10, 2011
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* My first blog post in a couple of months – been busy launching my book. Thanks to all involved and those who sent good
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* My first blog post in a couple of months – been busy launching my book. Thanks to all involved and those who sent good
(or A taste of my own medicine) * A small taste for those who have wondered how philosophical counselling/practice works. You might notice the constant
If the old model is broken, what will work in its place? The answer is: Nothing will work, but everything might. Now is the time
The Cape Times (Cape Town) published an edited version of this as “If we are cynical about our politicians, we will get the leaders we
This is the original version of an article published as “A formula for wisdom” in Psychologies (South Africa), August–September 2010 Every society venerates the wisdom
Friday afternoon I board a train at False Bay. The carriage is quite full and a man gestures me to the empty seat beside him.
Three recent reviews published in the Cape Times (Cape Town, South Africa) 1. Re-imagining the Social in South Africa: Critique, Theory and Post-apartheid Society (Jacklin
Nurtureshock: Why everything we think about raising our children is wrongPo Bronson & Ashley MerrymanEbury Press Reviewed by Helen Douglas (Cape Times, 12 February 2010)
Africa: The Politics of Suffering and SmilingPatrick ChabalUKZN Press and Zed BooksReviewed by Helen Douglas (Cape Times, 8 January 2010) As a Canadian immigrant to
Samantha Vice, a philosopher at Rhodes University, has been thinking about the moral condition of white South Africans. Is it possible to live a virtuous
Talk about racism moves like a veld fire. It flares up, is spread by strong winds, then hunkers down until the next spark ignites. It
From the Cape Times, 1 December 2009, in their series on “The Next Economy” No wonder they can’t fix it: it doesn’t exist Helen Douglas