Fair and Square – Rare?
Fair-mindedness is the ability to make judgements without prejudice or bias. It is hard for us not to…
Snide and Prejudiced.
Probably the best story ever written about the danger of prejudice is The Sneetches, by Dr. Seuss. In…
The Shadow of the Future
Even computers know that the best strategy for winning is to cooperate. (1) Birds, animals, cells in our…
Patience
Being patient is an active state. It isn’t resignation or admission of defeat. It isn’t giving up on…
Search For Truth
In Plato‘s Republic, he asks us to imagine a Cave in which prisoners live from birth. These prisoners…
Search For Truth
In Plato‘s Republic, he asks us to imagine a Cave in which prisoners live from birth. These prisoners…
Courage
Courage is not the opposite of fear – it is the defiance of fear. Looking fear in the eye,…
Perseverance
Perseverance requires us to change our way of looking at failure. It requires that we adopt a scientific…
Reflection
All animals – including humans – can use their brains to think and their thoughts can then be…
Courtesy
Now here’s a misunderstood virtue. Courtesy. It has come to be synonymous with pointless protocol or manipulative…