"The idea of ‘slowness’ became an important mantra for Paul: he wrote a widely cited paper on this topic. One of the popular newspaper columns he wrote for Die Burger was a letter to John Stuart Mill in which he described how he made the eating of an egg a quality event. He of course did not want to be prescriptive about how to eat eggs, but rather wanted to urge one to make every act in one’s daily life a quality act. This wish was fulfilled: if there is one thing I learned from him it was this principle, and so many others have expressed the same sentiment."
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Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr (2012), "Friedrich Paul Cilliers: Philosopher (1956–2011)" in: Afr J Sci, 2012, 108(3/4)
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Paul Cilliers
Friedrich Paul Cilliers (25 December 1956 – July 31, 2011) was a South-African philosopher and complexity researcher.
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