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Why should values be agent-relative?
Heumer’s critique of Ayn Rand’s ”The Objectivist Ethics” begins with …premise 1 [Value is agent-relative; things can only be valuable for particular entities] begs the question. One of the central...
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Sach Ka Saamna (Facing the truth)
Today’s supplement to the Times Of India carries a column by Vinita Nangia on the controversial TV show ‘Sach Ka Saamna’. Ironically the lesson Nangia draws from the show (as do many others) is Facing...
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Happiness
I was discussing the relative merits of movies vs novels as a medium for telling a story and happened to reread a passage in The Fountainhead that struck me deeply. Just think, Howard, think of it!...
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The essence of life
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely...
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Happiness – Short term and long term
…A person has to be happy in two ways at the same time to really be happy. There must be happiness found in the everyday things you do, and there must be the happiness of achieving long term values....
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Trip to Mangalore: Reflections
Visited a manufacturing unit for diamond polishing machinery belonging to a business associate from my first venture. The unit contained several lathes, shapers, milling machines, a CNC machine and...
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Delhi gang-rape: Some answers – 1
Read my last post for context. Severity: Numbers are hard to come by but it appears that the number of reported cases has doubled in the last two decades. Causes: To determine why the number of rapes...
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Thank you, Sachin
“Poetry,” wrote Aristotle, “is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.” A similar argument may be made for sport. Sport...
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