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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
Micro-procurement maze demands urgent reform

Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...

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