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An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich…
5m read · 297 saves · Mar 23 · Maria Popova · “Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about…
The question is, what are we? A conversation on consciousness
11m read · 215 saves · Mar 23 · Are your decisions made by your brain, or via the experience of the world relative to your body? A dialogue…
How the philosophical paradox of aspiration is resolved by a new theory of…
1m read · 87 saves · Apr 03 · Let's say you’ve decided to enrich yourself by learning to appreciate classical music, even though you didn't have much previous…
Stoicism, Habit Change and Goal-Setting in the Age of Coronavirus
5m read · 82 saves · Mar 19 · Coach Tony · Resetting everything while you’re social distancing
The Right Constitutional Philosophy for This Moment
9m read · Paywall possible · 80 saves · Mar 31 · Adrian Vermeule · Conservatives ought to move past originalism and explore a more moral framework for interpreting America’s founding documents.
He was the most revered philosopher of his era. So why did GE…
12m read · 75 saves · Apr 02 · The strange story of how a man who Bertrand Russell and the Bloomsbury Group looked on as a god ended…
Yes, Stoicism Can Make Us “Happy”
18m read · 44 saves · Apr 01 · Massimo Pigliucci · Can we live a meaningful life without divine providence? This is, at bottom, the question about which Carlos Fraenkel, who…
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad, by Emily Thomas
5m read · 41 saves · Apr 02 · Book of the week: Richard Larschan enjoys a wide-ranging survey of the deep intellectual insights and disputes thrown up by…
The Seven most Calming Works of Art in the World
6m read · 38 saves · Apr 03 · Art has never been mere entertainment. Alongside philosophy and religion, it has been humanity’s chief source of consolation. It is…
The crucial difference between metaphysics and epistemology
7m read · 27 saves · Apr 02 · Massimo Pigliucci · If someone claims that X exists, where X could be, for instance, unicorns, that person is making an ontological statement,…