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What is an Idea Worth?

Applying Philosophy to Business (and vice-versa) This guest post is by a PhD student in philosophy from the Australian National University. DEATH AND TAXES, the adage goes, are life’s two certainties. One might add commerce and philosophy to this list, for the trade of goods and services and the trade of ideas also seem to […]

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Pleasure is the goal of life

Post author By Tom Spencer
Post date April 14, 2010
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SEEMS fairly straight forward doesn’t it. The purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure, and the quest for those objects and experiences that will make our life more enjoyable. As I recently discovered while reading “The Consolations of Philosophy” by Alain de Botton, this was exactly the philosophy held by Epicurus, an ancient Greek […]

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