philosophy
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
Meditation with a mystical edge? Don’t knock magick ’til you’ve tried it.
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Ever wanted to describe precisely how crummy you feel after a bad haircut?
Saudade: the untranslatable Portuguese word that names the presence of absence and takes melancholy delight in what’s gone.
Postmodernists like to question the very foundations of our modern society. Does this make them anti-science?
What an academic sting on humanities journals really means to the rest of us. And to academia.
It’s hard to quantify what it means to be good, but this framework takes a stab at breaking down what makes people behave nicely.
Philosophers can be pretty eccentric. Here we list seven of the most out there. Yes, Diogenes is included.
Think walking is void of philosophy? Nietzsche and Gros are here to say you’re wrong.
Explore a legendary philosopher’s take on how society fails to prepare us for education and progress.
Podcast host Robert Wright’s lively conversation with the Harvard psychologist.
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Robert Wright and Massimo Pigliucci discuss the challenges of scientism.
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Do you ever act irrationally? You probably have. Let’s take a look at how to fix that.
When you’re in a midlife crisis, success can seem like failure.
Why is it that people say Ayn Rand isn’t a “real” philosopher?
Do we really believe everything we say? Are you always trying to establish the truth when you argue? This thought experiment will help answer these questions.
Many great minds have plenty of bad things to say about democracy, but what about the people who think it is great?
Finding New Year’s resolutions isn’t always easy. To help you out, we’ve gotten ideas from some of the greatest thinkers of all time.
One of the stranger philosophies currently enjoying a renewal of interest is also that of your favorite group of magical space wizard monks.
Some philosophers have tried to base morality on human nature, but what does biology say about that?
‘Total work’, a term coined by the German philosopher Josef Pieper just after the Second World War in his book Leisure: The Basis of Culture (1948), is the process by which human beings are transformed into workers and nothing else.
Existentialism is great and all, but how can you really relate to the ideas if you don’t think God is dead? Luckily, we’ve got just the thing.
Nietzsche’s ideas were used by the Nazi’s to justify their atrocities, but did Nietzsche actually support Fascism?
Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,Courage to change the things I can,And wisdom to know the difference.
Once desire becomes suspect, sex is never far behind.