BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

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How to live well when Life is Hard...

How to live well when Life is Hard...

MIT philosophy professor makes a case for how positivity can be overratted.

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Carissa Potter
Oct 28, 2022
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“We all matter, just because we are human.”

I never made the connection that during the victorian era a human’s worth was based on the value provided, how much you could work, how self-sufficient you were, and independent. Worth was measured on productivity. It was during the Enlightenment that a human’s worth shifted to being worthy just because we exis…

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