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Can Technology Change What It Means to Be Human?
How Do Perspectives on Death Shape Our Understanding of Life?
Is grief solely a response to death? Can it be experienced in other contexts of loss, such as the end of a relationship or the loss of a dream?
How does injustice shape us? James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
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Are we our work? What’s the value in idleness?
Can thinking about death lead to a good life?
Can we ever truly grasp our mortality?
Can we “live dyingly and die livingly?” Should we try?
What is the value of friendship? Why can it be so hard to make friends? Cicero’s “How to be a Friend” & two Atlantic articles
How do loneliness and isolation shape our communities and politics?
How do loneliness and isolation shape our communities and politics?
“The Political Consequences of Loneliness and Isolation During the Pandemic”, New Yorker article by Masha Gessen
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
Does thinking about death lead to a good life?
What does it mean to feel alone? The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘The Loneliness one dare not sound’, poem by Emily Dickinson, ‘On Solitude’ essay by Michel de Montaigne
What does it mean to feel alone? Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
What's so wrong with being lazy? In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell & How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
What does it mean to feel alone? Sartre’s Nausea
What does it mean to feel alone? Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
What Does it Mean to Feel Alone? Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
What does it mean to feel alone? Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Where does happiness come from? Selected readings from Ross Gay, Epictetus, and Nikki Giovanni
Should I stay or should I go? Herman Melville’s short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" & pandemic-era Great Resignation
