Of Mexico but many of them managed to take rafts and boat across the river other now determined to keep going until they reach the u.s. Border. President Ashraf Ghani has thanked Afghans for taking part in parliamentary elections despite threats from the Taliban in a televised address Mr Ghani said the people had proved to the insurgents that they would not bow down to force the Afghan election commission says around 3000000 people voted in the poll which was overshadowed by violence and chaotic organization. Rival protests have taken place in the eastern German city of Dresden where counter-demonstrations have been mounted to oppose a gathering of the far right anti Islam pay gate amazement several $1000.00 people turned out for each side. Was founded in the city 4 years ago and it staged regular rallies there against Germany s immigration policies and what it sees as the is the my zation of Europe b.b.c. Nice. Oh. And that made me. Now. And you can if you. Just reason our only guide
We don t have a coherent concept of progress cognitive scientist Steven Pinker author of enlightenment now you wouldn t think that a book that defended Enlightenment values and that said that science reason a humanism a good thing this would be so blatantly controversial fight it has made people s heads explode it s sort of like that monocle Cohen that says Barnes burning down now I can see the moon environmental as assistant S.A. s Kathleen Dean more author of the great Tiger rising even environmental organizations couldn t bring themselves to say the word climate change and suddenly that fog was lifted and it became very very clear what we re up against what will you read this summer to challenge your assumptions and make you think about things in new ways. It s our annual summer reading which Coming up on philosophy talk. B.b.c. News with Simone Comrie this continuing dead low co for judicial reforms in Poland the president sat down after a meeting with the head of the Supreme Cour
Ime when we go to the beach and the sun is out and the water is warm and the waves are inviting. And there are other times when we go to the beach we find at best jellyfish sometimes sharks a storm and that same water becomes very dangerous. But there is a metaphor that I would like to share with you that can help us work with the darker and sharper aspects of our field and I believe it is a metaphor that is quite appropriate for contemporary civilization. The name of this metaphor is the tarn trick condition in the post-modern world. In the traditional world certain holy men solders were often meet one another in the dead of night at cremation grounds in order to perform rites of manifestation and transformation. The cremation ground was considered to be an appropriate site for the tongue trick spiritual practices because in them one was directly exposed to the extremes of existence as if one was in a war zone extremes of opposites rotting corpses death abjection fear enticements fro
Hello I m rajin data and coming up after the news on the forum he s regarded as an architect of the modern economy and a leading figure in European progressive thinking in the 18th century but say his name Adam Smith and many people if they ve heard of him at all will immediately associate him with a particular brand of less a fair capitalism the so-called invisible hand of unfettered market forces and the virtue of pursuing self-interest but Adam Smith was much more than this caricature as will be exploring a brilliant pioneering moral philosopher he grew up in a Scotland that was alive with ideas and industry he wrote to seminal books one being the Wealth of Nations he also was greatly concerned with inequality and the plight of the poor and he had radical ideas on how we reach our moral views on the world around us joining me to unravel the misconceptions and explain the true Adam Smith after 4 eminent thinkers of the 21st century so join us on the forum after the news. Hello I m E