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- They encompass topics such as the psychology of kindness in childhood, the vulnerability of travelling alone in places with troubled histories, how Kerry had to learn to rely on the strangers working in an underfunded health service in a foreign country while suffering from a life-threatening illness, the perils of life on the water and the generosities of the boating community experienced whilst living on a canal boat, and how kindness can sometimes come with unexpected caveats and conditions...
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Oct 1, 2024 · With a new baby, Kerry Hudson is struggling to breathe. The challenges of living on a boat are dwarfed by the kindness of the boating community. Kerry, herself a stranger in the Czech Republic ...
In Omega, Rebecca Taksel looks back at a time in her young adulthood when she was befriended by a stranger and his family, an act of generosity and kindness whose extent she fails to recognize at the time.
- The Enlightenment Fallacy
- The Friendship Hypothesis
- The Reality of Our Social Networks
Although they may have disagreed quite audibly about the particulars, philosophers during the Enlightenment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries generally agreed on one thing: Once upon a time, our forerunners had been able to survive either as solitary forest creatures or in close-knit families just as Adam and Eve had been able to do in th...
Much of the logical foundations of modern social conservationism and philosophical libertarianism is in keeping with such Enlightenment ideas. As the philosophers Eric Mack and Gerald Gaus at Tulane University have summed up the libertarian view of society: “Each individual’s life, well-being or preference satisfaction is thought of as having supre...
Thanks to cell phones, computers, and online social media services, the words network and networking are familiar to many today. So, too, at least in the academic world, is the phrase social network analysis(SNA). The basic premise of the scholarly study of networks is that while we can think about things and people as if they exist all on their ow...
Sep 3, 2020 · 'This fascinating and wide-ranging book presents a new theory of why we are kind to strangers. Michael E. McCullough argues that the standard answers are mistaken—our kindness is not the product of a special evolved system, nor is it a biological accident.
The kindness of strangers. “I don’t want realism. I want magic.”. These legendary words capture the state of mind of Blanche DuBois, the central character of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire. Partly inspired by Williams’ sister, whose mental ill health led her to be institutionalised and to have a lobotomy, Blanche is.
A Streetcar Named DesireFamous Quotes Explained. Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. These words, which Blanche speaks to the doctor in Scene Eleven, form Blanche’s final statement in the play.
