At the end of the day, the root cause of many of the social and political problems we face is the failure to understand the real meaning of key philosophical concepts.
I write these words with some personal satisfaction. Fifty years ago, in 1971, when I graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, some of my friends and family members secretly believed that I had wasted four good years of my life studying useless things.
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