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Occupy your mind 101

Revered: Socrates PIC: HISTORY SKILLS
Revered: Socrates PIC: HISTORY SKILLS

The third Thursday of November is designated by UNESCO, a UN agency on education, as the annual World Philosophy Day. It is a day intended to reaffirm the vital role that philosophy plays in our private lives as well as in public affairs.

Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC), the founder of Western philosophy, its first martyr, and the first public intellectual, said that philosophy is a task of examining and investigating things, and to be critical about concepts that underlay everything. Philosophy is thus the substratum of all knowledge and a meditation that connects man to God.

Because we ought to love knowledge and in turn God, instinctively they will both occupy our mind because they are important to us.

Editor's Comment
Child protection needs more than prevailing laws

The rise in defilement and missing persons cases, particularly over the recent festive period, points not merely to a failure of policing, but to a profound and widespread societal crisis. Whilst the Police chief’s plea is rightly directed at parents, the root of this emergency runs deeper, demanding a collective response from every corner of our community. Marathe’s observations paint a picture of neglect with children left alone for...

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