The Best Articles in Philosophy

The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully…

We have a great deal of trouble telling what is innate and what is learned in human nature, whether ideas or emotions

From classic texts to modern philosophy books for beginners, these are the best philosophy books to fill your shelves with.

Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.

«An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), David Hume argues that inductive logic is unjustified. Inductive logic is the process of making observations and then drawing larger conclusions from limited data»

Professor Jonardon Ganeri FBA explains the meanings and uses of philosophy, from the ancient world to the present day.

«To do philosophy nowadays is to attend to the ways things are by attending to the concepts according to which we understand them.»

INTRO Here’s a short introduction to some of the most fascinating philosophical issues about happiness. We are going to look at three...

Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day explores a meaningful life by addressing the age-old question: how can we make the best use of our time?

«What you learn today becomes the scaffolding to solving tomorrow’s problem.»

“Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.”

Seven tactics from the ancient world that have stood the test of time

We can't wait for tech regulation and competition reform to ensure ethical AI. We need to move forward now.

The modern world is disenchanted. God remains dead. But our need for transcendence lives on. How should we fulfil it?

Fight the tendency to see your life as a narrative journey.

We tend to view politics as warfare, but genuine friendship puts politics in its place, providing a good that our fraught public battles can't touch.

Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of "wabi sabi" can help.

«“Instead, what keeps us living and what keeps me vitally engaged is a constant pursuit of betterment»

Why talking with people whose views you hate can help you (and, maybe, them)

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It’s possible to become happy and successful. Just make sure the goal that'll make you successful is driven by your happiness and not the other way around.

«When you achieve that success, it isn’t the goal itself that makes you happy, its the fulfillment of your happiness through the attainment of the goal that does.»

Just because a thing is good doesn't mean that you need more of it. "Lagom" teaches us to appreciate that "just enough" is all we need.

«A “fulfillment wheel” is a way to measure balance across different aspects of life. Lagom is to be well-rounded and to take pleasure in that»

Philosophers have long argued that we can live a good life by following certain rules and principles. Here are their top rules to live your best life.

«Choose the present. Seize the present. Be present. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde»

In Mexico, people who are “tocado” — “touched” — reveal that geological time can emerge through fissures in the land to alter the way we relate to our homes, cities and even ourselves.

Fortunate is the person who has reached the age of 50 without having had to grieve. To be among the grieving, the bereaved, is an experience most of us go through, excepting only those who die…

Other than the martial arts badass that he was (and he’s mostly known for), he was also a philosophy badass.

«Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”»

The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it's time to overthrow that idea.

Life-tested wisdom on how to live from James Baldwin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Viktor Frankl, Rachel Carson, and Hannah Arendt.

«You should respond with kindness toward evil done to you, and you will destroy in an evil person that pleasure which he derives from evil.»