Philosophy
The heroes behind the masks
Existential fear is a strange thing. You feel you may never embrace the people you love again, never have the chance to apologize about any bridges you may have burned without good reason, never again set eyes on your favorite Aegean island chapel and see the Greek flag waving. You are gripped by an inexplicable anguish that you will never again see things that you had once barely noticed.
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Daily virus cases see jump in past 2 days
Turkey's confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 1,562 in the past 24 hours, and 15 more people have died, taking the death toll to 4,805, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on June 14.
Turkey's total confirmed cases stood at 178,239, according to the infographic Koca shared at Twitter.
Some 1,330 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the minister said.
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Consumer confidence in record slide
In February 2020 consumer confidence in Greece had climbed to an almost 20-year peak at -4.8 points. It took just a few weeks for it to slide back down to -16.5 points in March, according to Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) statistics released on Wednesday, with the monthly reduction of 11.7 points being the biggest ever recorded from one month to the next.
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Signs discipline flagging at halfway mark
With the curve of the number of Covid-19 cases remaining at a relatively manageable gradient, the government believes it has reason to be cautiously optimistic that Greece is on course to win the battle if the restrictions in place continue to be observed.
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The single soul of empathy dwelling in our bodies
Different people may use different words to describe the friendly China-Greece relations. But recently, the word empathy came to my mind. As the great Greek philosopher Aristotle put it, "What is a friend?
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Coronavirus situation is way too serious to be in panic - VIDEO
Slavoj Zizek is a cultural philosopher. He's a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London.
Greek President calls on citizens to stick to anti-virus measures
The newly sworn-in President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoullou, has chosen to communicate with Greek citizens through a Facebook post on the need to observe the preventive measures taken against the spread of the coronavirus.
Economic sentiment at 19-year high, IOBE reports
The Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) reported on Wednesday a considerable rise in its economic sentiment index in February to levels unseen in 19 years.
The index reading for last month reached 113.2 points against 109.5 points in January.
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10-year-old bookworm draws attention on philosophy knowledge
A 10-year-old boy in Turkey has become a trending topic on Twitter after a man posted a video of him talking about philosophy, mentioning Platon, Aristotle, andJean-Jacques Rousseau.
Defying Populism: In Defence of Cosmopolitanism
There is just one problem with this narrative: it is deeply misleading. And, for political reasons, that confusion matters.
As the philosopher Martha Nussbaum reminds us in her fascinating new book The Cosmopolitan Tradition, asked where he came from, Diogenes the Cynic answered with a single word: kosmopolités, meaning "a citizen of the world."
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