I bought the book “A man called Ove” from a big super market. It was an easy buy because I have already read “Anxious people” and I liked the story, the unfolding of the characters and the nice rhythm the dialogs had between the protagonists.
“A man called Ove” is about an old, grumpy man and his life. There are many flashbacks in the book that cause you nostalgia and leave you with a bitter-sweet taste.
Είμαι σίγουρη πώς δεν χωράει, ήμουν σίγουρη απ' τη στιγμή που αποφάσισα να αγοράσω το βιβλίο. Ο τίτλος όμως catchy σε κάνει να σκέφτεσαι, μήπως όντως χωράει; Το βιβλίο είναι ένας διάλογος μεταξύ ενός αρχαιολόγου (εγώ τον λέω Αρθούρο) και έναν… δεν έχουμε ιδέα τι ήταν ο άλλος άνθρωπος, στις 280 σελίδες του βιβλίου δεν φαίνεται να απασχολεί τον αρχαιολόγο. Ο Αρθρούρος και ο Μπάμπης, που δεν συστήθηκαν ποτέ, κλείστηκαν σε ένα ασανσέρ και ο Αρθούρος αποφάσισε να του μάθει 2-3 πράγματα για τον αρχαίο κόσμο.
I recently discovered a channel on youtube that contains conversations between a student and his professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dr Hans-Georg Moeller.
I will cite some notes and quotes (as I heard them by Dr Hans-Georg Moeller, removing the interjections and the repeating words) from the video regarding morality and religion, so as to facilitate the process of the things you will hear.
Notes:
About philosopher Wittgenstein: “there are two different ways in which we use the terms good or right either we use them in a relative sense or in a trivial sense”, “it’s good or right relative to a certain perspective to a certain activity, “what he means with relative, that it is relative to a specific criterion”.
The term executive function refers to some important, mental skills that allow us to set and achieve goals. The main areas of executive function are: working memory, attention shifting and inhibitory control that we all use as we plan things or solve problems.
I found two tests that measure executive function in young children: dimensional change card sort and the marshmallow test. In the first task kids switch from sorting cards one way (e.
Hello guys, it’s been a while. This article is not so much of an article, is more like a game that I am thinking since the first lockdown.
I am always so confused about what happens first in history. We learn so many historical facts in school, but we don’t learn how to put them in order. Is it important though to put history in order? I think that it is.
“Μικρή φιλοσοφία του έρωτα”
Γιατί μικρή φιλοσοφία του έρωτα και όχι μικρή φιλοσοφία του πάθους ή της αγάπης; Ανάλογα με τη θέση στην οποία βρίσκεσαι, νοηματοδοτείς και ορίζεις τον έρωτα διαφορετικά, σε σημείο που είναι λάθος να χρησιμοποιησώ την λέξη “έρωτας” για να προσδώσω κάποιο συγκεκριμένο νόημα (θα έλεγε ο Allain de Botton). Στα αγγλικά το βιβλίο λέγεται “essays in love” γεγονός που με κάνει να αναρωτιέμαι τι θα γράψω στην αγγλική έκδοση του review (και δευτερευόντως γιατί ο ελληνικός τίτλος είναι βαρυσήμαντος;) Επίσης, το βιβλίο μου άρεσε: αστείο, σοβαρό με ωραία χρήση της γλώσσας.
People with ADHD have difficulties organizing their behavior so as to achieve personally desired aims. Here are five strategies that may be helpful to adults or children with ADHD.
Externalizing information Talking to yourself, - that is also a recommended strategy for therapeutic writing -help you identify, comprehend and organize your thoughts. This way, instead of thinking what needs to be done, you saying it! The fact that you saying it, it may decrease the emotional discomfort that is related to the task.
Programming sounds cool and is a very nice addition to the educational curriculum, but if you don’t know anything about programming, like me, or your kids don’t know anything about it, start from the basics.
Remember the joke that I posted some weeks ago?
A programmer is going to the supermarket and is told: “Buy a pint of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen.” The programmer goes to the supermarket, buys everything, and drives back to his house.
| “If we knew nothing about where we’ d end up, what sort of a society would it feel safe to enter?” –John Rawls |
Matters of injustice arise everyday in informal frameworks and mainly in relation to our own life. Day – to – day it can be hard to take unfairness seriously. I mean to really imagine how life would be If you weren’t you. We work hard and we have ambitions.
Do you ask yourself things like am I a good person? When are we free as human beings? Which is a moral worthy action? Or are there specific moral lows that can apply to everybody? So did Immanuel Kant. And he gave us some good answers.
If you studied religion, you concluded that it attempted, among other things, to help us follow moral lows. Kant tried to replace religious authority with the authority of reason.