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Education Is Not Preparation for Work, but the Development of Your Humanity
The function of education has always been a heated debate. Why do we go to school? Nowadays, it is to get a well-paying job. However, it used to be different. School was a place for personal growth. Although this conception of education still remains alive, it has been pushed to the back in favour of…
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Are We Doomed to Fail?
To say that we live in turbulent times might be an understatement. Every day, new headlines appear on every news station about a horrible event. Wars are raging again, extremism is rising, and intolerance is becoming more and more mainstream. In addition, the climate is changing, potentially harming us all, and the economic structures in…
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Sarcastaball and the Fear of Pain
Would you watch or play a sport with no tension? No risk of injury? No way to attain excellence? Well, the South Park episode of Sarcastaball explores this idea. There, the children of South Park have to play a sport that cannot potentially harm them. No injury in Sarcastaball, no pain. Byung-Chul Han would see…
Elenchus Philosophy 