philosophy
Modern autocracies operate “not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies,” says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.
Three of the greatest moral philosophers — Bentham, Kant and Aristotle — offer invaluable and practical lessons for leaders today.
If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.
“In that conversation with Laozi’s text, I began to see the shape of my own life, the questions that opened seams, the patterns that pooled and shimmered.”
Why do we tip waitstaff and cabdrivers but not flight attendants and retail clerks?
The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.
By focusing on the role of human experience, we may uncover new insights on the fundamental structure of reality.
Oliver Burkeman — author of “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” — tells Big Think about modern life lessons from a 6th-century monk.
Desire is like a drug. But is an addict always an addict?
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What’s even the point?
If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
“What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter.”
Is it ever possible for God to violate the laws of nature?
How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
“I know what you’re thinking” can sound kind or creepy — depending on who’s saying it.
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
The Danish philosopher’s simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
There’s a fine line between ambition and ruthlessness.
You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.
From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
When stuffed and staring down the last bite, you might hear your mother’s voice in your mind.
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
In the fight between head and heart, psychologists will win.