Category Archives: Compassion
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WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – ANCIENT: “Plato’s Ship of State Metaphor” / Plato ☮
EMPATHY AND COMPASSION: “Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Greets Syrian Refugees Who Just Arrived in Toronto” ☮
CHRISTIAN MALEVOLENCE: “The Inhumane History of Christianity” ☮
CHRISTIANITY: “The Afterlife” ☮
h/t: Atheism 411
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – STOICISM: “If There are Gods” / Marcus Aurelius ☮
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – EXISTENTIALISM: “Why you Should be Watching Fargo Already” / Albert Camus ☮
Every episode of Fargo to date has been titled after a piece of literature, and characters have quoted everyone from Lewis Carroll to Albert Camus. The literary choices never seem random, thematically commenting on the action of the show. Episode three is named after Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus and feels like a major inspiration for the entire season, given Noreen’s extended philosophical discussion of it with Ed and Charlie in episode five (and Ed’s subsequent misinterpretation of it in episode six). How many TV shows in 2015 can introduce you to the works of Kafka, Camus, and Ionesco?
h/t: Vulture
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – STOICISM: “On Thought and Deed” / Marcus Aurelius ☮
COLLECTIVE TRUST: “Blindfolded Muslim Man Hugs Mourners in Paris With A Placard Beneath His Feet That Read ‘I Trust You, Do You Trust Me? So Hug Me!'” ☮



