In The Human Paradox: Worlds Apart in a Connected World, author Frank Gaffikin probes
widely and meticulously into our past and present to analyse the connections between the …

… In addition to an appreciation for the human paradox, this book develops these three
worlds as the underpinnings of reality and, thereby, of human life on this planet. That’s …

… This chapter explores the interrelationships between globalisation, migration and human
security. It explores the paradox whereby national governments are seeking ever-tighter …

… between reason and paradox, and the final section addresses the relationship between
philosophy and moral and political responsibilities. Philosophy and the Human Paradox will be …

… Coleridge and Rorty turn out to be the two polar figures of this book, concrete embodiments
of the human paradox. Coleridge is the personification of what I will call the virtues of …

… world of mathematics. They were born with the living. Because the world is rife with paradoxes
… in any one of them, I propose two rules to deal with paradox. First, when encountering a …

… paradoxical about the human person is this: that the human soul is not a pure spirit independent
of matter, but the finite and the human … up against the paradox that is the human person. …

… This atomistic and paradoxical approach of detachment affords us the ability to draw more
general and holistic conclusions about globalization’s effects, which can, in turn, be used to …

… and white world in dreary shades of gray—or, as Chesterton more precisely put it, a red and
white world painted in ruined hues of pink. We want a saturated world of paradox, which is …

… We are faced with a paradox. For all its richness, life is strongly constrained. Convergence …
This runs into the so-called Fermi paradox—if extraterrestrials are so common, then where are …