Everyone has a limited life time frame. No body can escape from this
reality. The problem is , under the same circumstance, what makes our lives
so different? Facing the same adversity, why do some people strive while
some struggle, or some happy while some depressed? What is the underlying
formular that leads to these different results in life? How do you recognise
it and thus improve it? I will assure you that after you've come to today's
Philorum, your life will be transformed in a way you can never imagine. See
u there guys!
Time and Place for Philorum Group @ Central
1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month.
18:15 for a 18:30 Start. Finish 21:30
(Feel free to come and go at any point during the night.)
The Members Bar, Floor 1
(Keep winding up to the top of the stairs.)
The Gaelic Club
64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills
Sydney, Australia
(100 metres from a Central railway station exit.)
Cost: Free (Patronise the bar).
http://www.philorum.org/centralFutureCalendar.html
Wed 15 Dec 2010 Embracing post-growth futures? (Donnie Maclurcan)
Given a growing body of evidence suggesting an inability to decouple
economic growth from environmental degradation fast enough to avoid
catostrophic climate change, what are the alternatives to growth?
Furthermore, how might we embrace and usher in such alternatives in a world
governed by overarching frameworks all too often defined by too few? Donnie
Maclurcan is a Founding Member of the Growthbusters:
http://growthbusters.org
Wed 05 Jan 2011 Moral Obligations to Assist Others (Rupert McCallum )
In "Living High and Letting Die", Peter Unger puts forward an argumet that
it is seriously wrong for people in the developed world to refrain from
doing everything they can to alleviate suffering and premature death in the
developing world. The argument is examined briefly and also information
about charity evaluation is presented, helping to add to the factual
information on the basis of which Peter Unger makes his argument. An
interesting feature of Peter Unger's presentation is that he says that he
can bracket the question of whether there are any objective moral truths.
Peter Unger's methodology and metaethical views are examined, and the
question is explored how we should assess Peter Unger's project from a
"naturalistic" point of view.
End of transmission.
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