Month: May 2018
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Using the Socratic Method on the debate about passive treatment
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH “He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” ― Michel de Montaigne All my life I’ve been fascinated by philosophy, the complex world in which we live and the questions it poses to us. About 7 years ago I started studying complexity and…
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Forget ‘pain’ let’s start talking about the ‘person’
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” – T.S. Elliot. In my blog around whether passive treatments cause harm, I made the point that we need to be cautious around dividing complex problems into dichotomies. Interestingly, whilst many people seemed to get the…