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The Prospects of Understanding for a Worm

Margaret Gullan-Whur advises Dr. Shenkman’s patients to read Spinoza.

Besieged by patients suffering from stress, Dr. Shenkman finds philosophy a ‘headless chicken’ unable to supply the purpose and direction in life which by dictionary definition it should. He’s observed that grand metaphysical schemes which give meaning to life are even more out of fashion than faith-based religion. But despair not, Dr. Shenkman: Spinoza’s your man.

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