If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.
Julian Baggini
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of... →
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal... →
Julianna Baggott
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the... →
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a... →
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical... →
Samina Baig
I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in... →
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
David Bailey