Tense, nervous headache? Take Stoics
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Professor of philosophy Richard Sorabji maintains that ancient philosophers, particularly the Stoics, offer practical answers to everyday problems. Sorabji believes that the Stoics were right in arguing that understanding the intellectual question of what the emotions consist of can be of direct practical help in life. US war hero Admiral James Stockdale claims that understanding the Stoic philosopher Epictetus allowed him to survive solitary confinement and torture in Vietnam. Stoicism involves suspending judgements rather than deciding immediately that something is good or bad.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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A disarming chap. Interview with Joseph Rotblat winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1995
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Joseph Rotblat is the 87-year-old Polish-born physicist who won the Nobel Peace Price Prize in 1995 Pugwash, a project to prevent nuclear disasters. The concept of Pugwash began in the 1950s when Rotblat together with Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other scientists signed an anti-nuclear agreement. Rotblat had been seriously disturbed by the destruction and loss of life caused by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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Answers in the affirmative
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Condolezza Rice is provost at Stanford University, California, where she has recently been rationalising services and staff in order to tackle a budget shortfall of 43 million US dollars. Rice was formerly special assistant for Soviet affairs to President George Bush, at a time when the Soviet Union was collapsing, Germany was reunifying, and Poland was being liberated. Details of Rice's personal and career background are included.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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