sufferingspessimismsophiaworldstudiesproject SophiaOmni1.sophiaomniOntheSufferingsoftheWorldArthurSchopenhauerUnlesssufferingisthedirectandimmediateobjectoflife,ourexistencemustentirelyfailofitsaim.Itisabsurdtolookupontheenormousamountofpainthataboundseverywhereintheworld,andoriginatesinneedsandnecessitiesinseparablefromlifeitsel...
Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword: The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808‐1815. By ANDREW BAMFORD. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 2013. 328 p. $39.95 (hb). ISBN 978‐0‐8061‐4343‐9.doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12118KENTON WHITE...
Rural administrators in the Midwest and the South yielded to necessity and employed several hundred thousand women as farm laborers by the end of the war, but those in the Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains remained hesitant, suffering serious agricultural and financial losses as a consequence...
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a dramatic reorganization of the healthcare system. People's access to health care has significantly deteriorated. Dozens of public health facilities have been closed to patients not suffering from COVID-19. It has postponed or canceled many diagnostic and ...
Ask a dinosaur in the cubicle next to you, and they'll go on a rant about floppy disks and 4-color monitors. Or you could grab a PDF copy of an old issue of Computer Gaming World, the first magazine specifically dedicated to computer games. Where? The CGW Museum, of course. This ...
Getting rid of involuntary suffering is only one strand of the transhumanist project. But one needn't be a neo-Buddhist to recognise the importance of phasing out involuntary suffering. Compare the World Health Organization definition of health: https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution...
…. (formerly pagans, they didn’t realize that) history, the story of the world, was going anywhere, or that their own lives might be part of that forward movement. …they have been caught up into a great movement of the love and power of the one true God, the God of Israel…. ...
IV. W HEN we come to the more general theory, which attends to the acceleration and not merely the velocity of the observer, I find myself in disaccord on some points with many eminent exponents, chiefly in connection with their aboli- tion of the idea of " force," and the consequent ...
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. In this unique line, Whitman declares his sense of self above everything else. It’s far more important to be oneself, even if others are taken aback by it, than it is to pretend to be someone else. Poetry and art are essenti...
This study used the Baidu Index to analyze searches using discriminatory language toward the source of the outbreak during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found a strong correlation between official intervention and a reduction in