philosophy

"the ability of a person to create his own meaning after fully accepting that the universe is a large place of meaninglessness."...

Life is...well, it's something alright....

A journey to understand the hidden prejudice that nobody takes seriously.

Most agree that health is better than sickness, abundance is better than poverty, and peace is better than war. But many now point to a fundamental problem. Despite better access to healthcare, education, and more disposable income, cases of depression have increased by over 50% worldwide since 1997. Research shows that richer...

On the dissonance of the free prisoner

Philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the experience and meaning of grief. In this interview, Kathleen Higgins rights that wrong and argues that grief has a deep connection to art, especially music, in the way it disrupts but also reorients our relationship to the world and others.

Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism....

If you like something ironically, do you actually like it or not? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be yes AND no.

We were designed to enjoy life's pleasures, not just to constantly seek self-improvement. Today’s self-help ideology echoes Nietzsche’s concern about the dangers of ascetic practices as a form of self-punishment.

I recently got interested about the Age of Enlightenment, and more specifically Voltaire - and would like to read some of his works to understand him better....

Imagine a future where technology has advanced to an extent enabling the creation of an customized universe, for every individual. This extraordinary realm would be finely tuned to match each persons preferences, values and aspirations. Within this universe individuals would have control over their surroundings and experiences....

How the theory of relativity explains our minds.

In this lecture Bergo presents a really interesting survey of how anxiety has been understood through the history of philosophy. Special attention to how Schopenhauer and Darwin use the term. the audio is bad, but I found it worthwhile....

Human beings are hardwired to think about mundane irrelevant things periodically even if we elevate our state of consciousness to an higher level of thinking.The effect is ephemeral and we tend to go back or settle down to a lower tier again. It’s like constantly running away from darkness in search of light,(i.e the big...

Statesman, Stoic, and millionaire. How can we find virtue in Seneca’s complex and even contradictory lifestyle? ‘This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and wo…

As a thought experiment, consider a reality with a single human. There are no other humans, animals, or anything of that nature. Not in the past, present, or future....

In the thought experiment Mary's Room, it is argued that Mary gains new knowledge about the colour red when she leaves the room....