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...What those two events did, especially having my child, was to tie me to life in a real way that I hadn’t been before. I had just never thought about those sorts of questions and I wanted to bring them together. I couldn’t do it philosophically because the way I had been trained philosophically just wouldn’t allow it; I couldn’t make it precise enough. I love the fact that literature is not precise, that fiction is not precise. It can do justice to the messiness, the confusion...
...have your own religious and moral views changed throughout the course of your life? What has had the greatest impact on them...
...What is the most important thing, or at least one thing on your mind currently, that philosophy has changed about your day-to-day outlook on life...
...What philosophy has really changed about my life is that it is always teaching me to question, to be very, very aware and to try to make questions as precise as possible. I’m very critical of my own beliefs, I’m always trying to question them to see if I have good grounds for believing them. It’s just the fabric of my life, really...
...inevitable scene where the token friend assures the hero or heroine that he or she really is a great person, they have so much going for them, etc. Wings, a new dating Web site developed by four Harvard Business School and College grads, brings such real-life reassurances to cyberspace, at the service of hopeful singles...