The Philosophical Faculty Journal

Category: Mirte Debats

  • Accept to Lose: A Nine-Step Program

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    Film and Philosophy: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Dream Journal of the Family Hoover Jonathan Dayton (director of Little Miss Sunshine): ‘‘Our culture is so built on the idea of chasing our dream. […] But then this [film] is about what happens when those dreams don’t come true and what’s left’’ (Cinema Therapy 2024, 6:14). ‘‘Little…

  • Sowing Seeds of the Future

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    I hope for a Future when We can just be, when We don’t have to choose  an identity, when We can exist in Our complexity, I hope for a Future when We can be free, of every division, class, and category, restacking the deck, of history, I hope for a Future without hostility, when We…

  • Op zoek naar de verhalen van de FFTR

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    Een interview met drs. Ignace de Haes over het boek Denkers en Duiders: Een eeuw Nijmeegse filosofie, theologie en religiewetenschappen in honderd verhalen “Heb je al gehoord …”, “Wat er gister toch is gebeurd …”, “Wat ik nu toch weer heb meegemaakt …”: Deze en soortgelijke zinnen hoor je de hele dag door. Mensen vertellen…

  • What You See, When You Close Your Eyes

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    Book Review of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I would have liked to begin this story in the manner of a fairy tale. I would have liked to write: ‘Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself, and who was in need of…