For many of us in Western European and in the United States, politics seems to have lost its appeal and hit a new low in terms of trust. Perhaps this isn’t entirely surprising after watching the leaders TV debates on both sides of the Atlantic and the British debate on Brexit. One commentator last week […]
The Dialectic: Its Global Utility
What you may ask has the author Jane Austen to do with the dialectic? Well, quite a lot, if one look at one of her main novels, Sense and Sensibility which I have just finished reading for the umpteenth time. On the one hand, Austen seems to follow what Alistair MacIntyre terms as Aristotle’s ‘virtue ethics’ […]
Six Aspects to Become an Inspirational Speaker
With the US presidential campaign under way once again, we are about to hear, see, and read in our media what central figures like Hillary Clinton say to motivate and inspire the electorate to support them. Today, as in other times, there are many great speakers both inside and outside the United States, but we have […]
