My research has taken a enormous toll on my relationship with my children and my partner. I just hope it was worth it final year,after four years, I finally completed my doctorate. I was 48 years frail. I started it because I was looking for an mental challenge while bringing up my children in a remote area. I had been feeling disconnected and my research gave me a focus. But the impact on my family, and both financial and emotional,is something that I’m still trying to reconcile. My research involved analysing arguments about how we understand our relationship with the rest of existence. I came to the conclusion that we do not, in fact, or direct our own lives. Were all a mesh of conditions and circumstances,and the myth that we are free to choose is an ideological trick for meting out praise and punishment.
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Source: theguardian.com