Only now, or in recent months, have people started to recognise the impact of Covid on mental health. This is the unseen outcome from restrictions to personal and collective freedoms, from financial stresses, and here in the U.K. from a… Read More ›
Epicurus
Reflections on Old Age.
Positive reflections in old age are an important part of personal fulfilment. Existentialism and Epicureanism are ready made concepts to guide you into it, unless you are part of the Forever Young Brigade!
A Flummox of Philosophers: #4 The Atomists
Democritus and Epicurus are my two philosophers from Ancient Greece featured in this post who both subscribed to the belief that everything consisted of atoms and void, with “atomon” meaning “indivisible”. As you will probably realise the same term was… Read More ›
A Flummox of Philosophers: #2 The Presocratics
An ongoing series of short posts about schools of philosophy and individual thinkers through the ages. Some of them I briefly studied during my psychology degree, others I have considered more recently in retirement and old age. This is NOT… Read More ›
A Flummox of Philosophers!
An ongoing series of short posts about schools of philosophy and individual thinkers through the ages. Some of them I briefly studied during my psychology degree, others I have considered more recently in retirement and old age. This is NOT… Read More ›
Book Review: Travels With Epicurus
Travels with Epicurus (Daniel Klein) A journey to a Greek island in search of an authentic old age Not exactly a wine book or a book about wine tasting, but it DOES relate to our wine experiences so worth placing… Read More ›
The Two Doctors 
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