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Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas. Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist. Fass news. In commemoration of their 85th anniversary, the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Dentistry and Science, jointly organised the 85th Anniversary Resilience Run on Saturday, 29 March. Comprising a fund raising campaign to help the disabled community in NUS, the Run symbolises the resilience and determination of the three faculties as well as special guest Dr William Tan in overcoming various challenges over the years to become the success stories they are today. The Guest of Honour was NUS Provost Prof Tan Eng Chye. Dr William Tan, Faculty of Science alumnus and NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award recipient was an inspiration to everyone who attended the run that day.

Starting at six-thirty in the morning, Dr Tan proceeded on his plege to do an 85-kilometer run over five gruelling hours, largely under the hot morning sun, in his specially-equipped paraplegic tricycle. That was actually an astounding 213 rounds on the running track! Dr William Tan completing his 85km run. Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology. The Liberal Arts in Singapore. The kent ridge common | Brain Pickings. Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge. Editorials, Columns, Op-Ed, Letters, Opinionator and More Opinion. Philosophy-at-nus. Aristotle distinguishes three sorts of friendship. There are friendships of pleasure or of utility, in which the friend takes the other—even as an object of care—as a person qua bearer of characteristics conducive to pleasure or utility.

Then there are much more valuable character friendships in which the friend cares for the other qua person for the other’s own sake. These are held by Aristotle and a variety of contemporary thinkers who broadly follow his account of friendship to involve various fairly strict equalities, or as we prefer to put it, symmetries between the friends. Roughly, such friends are fairly strictly symmetrically autonomous in relation to each other, fairly strictly symmetrical in their separateness of identity from each other, fairly strictly symmetrical in the degree to which they identify with each other, and are fairly strictly symmetrical in the degree to which they are virtuous. About the Speakers: T. John N. Fauxphilnews. Opinion & Ideas. Yahoo! Singapore News. TPM Online: The Philosophers' Magazine. Scientific American.