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Is Calligraphy an Art? Is it a Hobby? Is it a Craft? Is it a form of Meditation? I cannot guarantee you will ever find an answer to these questions but if you come along to the Horizons calligraphy class you will begin something that can only reward your quest for your true self. To sit with a dozen
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Conventional economics has come to regard itself as a positive science. It tells us that it does not deal in values so just aims just to describe how the economy is, rather than presenting a vision of how it should be. But economics is an ethical subject. This is the view adopted by the course ‘Eco
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Horizons Course – Saturday Mornings At a dinner given in his honour in 1947, the great economist John Maynard Keynes proposed the toast “To economics and economists, as trustees of the possibility of civilisation”. Now economics may not be the stuff of which civilisation is made, but unless the econ
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Plato’s Statesman – Horizons Course What is a Statesman? Who fulfils this role and what qualities do they possess? What is their nature and what knowledge do they have? In order to distinguish the qualities of the statesman and what his nature may be, Plato goes back the most fundamental forms o
