What can philosophy contribute to our
understanding of the terror, violence and insecurity dominating our
lives today?
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Video Text: Philosophy always involves critical reflection, and
so what we find for thousands of years is that people have lived in
societies where they've lived on through terror and violence, and so
philosophy is a way to give us some insight, some in-depth analysis. We
tend to use these terms like "terror" and "violence" as slogans, and so
to think seriously and critically about them, we find that philosophers
often had some good insights about the nature of terrorism, and how
people have coped with terrorism, and often how they've been able to
overcome it.
