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Bertrand Russell Is Dead; British Philosopher, 97

By Alden Whitman — 1970

“Three passions, simple but strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

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An Introduction to Conscience

Listen to your conscience, the old saying goes. But how do we follow that advice, and what do we do when staying true to our conscience contradicts conventional wisdom and behaviors expected or encouraged by society? Before listening to our conscience, we must be capable of identifying what it is.

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How Your Brain Invents Morality

Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

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An Introduction to Naturopathy and Functional Medicine

Naturopathic Medicine and Functional Medicine have many similarities as well as many differences. Both systems focus on an individualized, patient-centered approach, identify and address underlying causes of disease and symptoms, and use targeted therapeutic interventions.

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The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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The Bernie S. Siegel interview on ‘The Art of Healing’

One key distinction in this new wave of scholars—including books by Coles, Dossey and Bernie Siegel—is that these experts are not selling any specific religious creed. They’re not “faith healers.

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Searching for Our Souls

Our modern society has gone astray during much of the past several centuries. While every person is in pursuit of one thing or another, we are searching for our own soul.

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How to Respond to Oppression

Oppression is everywhere and exists in almost every form. How should believers respond to oppression when they have to face it? Fethullah Gülen responds.

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How Believing in an Afterlife Can Ruin Your Life

Surely any support for a belief in an afterlife, no matter how tenuous, is better than none? Isn’t it bound to be a comfort? It may not work out like that.

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What Ails Us

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

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Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate

Writing “The Plague” in the form of a historical “chronicle” was a hopeful gesture, implying human continuity, a vessel to carry the memory of war as an inoculation against future armed conflicts.

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