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23 Jul 2026

I Think Therefore I Am: Descartes’ Cogito Ergo Sum Explained original ↗

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Nietzsche: Zero Suffering is the Wrong Goal; Suffering is Necessary for Greatness original ↗

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29 Apr 2026

Elizabeth Anderson on Corporate Tyranny original ↗

26 Mar 2026

Can You Refute Solipsism, the Theory that Your Mind is the Only thing that Exists?original ↗

24 Mar 2026

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How Can We Live When the World Feels Broken? The Stoics: By Carrying On original ↗

8 Mar 2026

On Reconciling Ourselves to the Vastness of Space: Robert Nozick original ↗

1 Mar 2026

Epicurus: Don’t Worry about Death, It Won’t Even Last a Millisecond original ↗

21 Feb 2026

Galen Strawson: Our Lives Are Not Stories original ↗

18 Feb 2026

Elizabeth Anscombe: ‘Morality’ is a Useless Concept; We Have Better Terms to Guide Us original ↗

9 Feb 2026

Erich Fromm: Our Task is Not to Feel Certain, but to Better Tolerate Uncertainty original ↗

7 Feb 2026

Thomas Nagel: What is it Like to be a Bat?original ↗

19 Jan 2026

Jorge Luis Borges: When We Die, What Dies With Us?original ↗

12 Jan 2026

Three Philosophers, Three Ways to Rethink the New Year original ↗

5 Jan 2026

2025

Iris Murdoch: ‘Unselfing’ is Crucial for Living a Good Life original ↗

30 Nov 2025

Nozick’s Experience Machine: Does it Refute Hedonism?original ↗

16 Nov 2025

Heidegger: We Are Time Unfolding (and our Time is Finite)original ↗

3 Nov 2025

Havi Carel on the Philosophy of Illness: Is Good Health Necessary for a Good Life?original ↗

22 Oct 2025

Thich Nhat Hanh on Healing the Wounds of the Past original ↗

6 Oct 2025

Simone de Beauvoir on the Crisis of Retirement and Facing Old Age original ↗

22 Sept 2025

Michael Cholbi on Grief, Identity Crisis, and What We Learn from Loss original ↗

8 Sept 2025

Antinatalism: David Benatar’s Asymmetry Argument for Why it’s Wrong to Have Children original ↗

18 Aug 2025

Amor Fati: the Stoics’ and Nietzsche’s Different Takes on Loving Fate original ↗

9 Aug 2025

Arne Næss’s Deep Ecology: Reevaluating Our Place in Nature original ↗

21 Jul 2025

Susan Wolf on How to Live a Meaningful Life original ↗

14 Jul 2025

Simone Weil’s Ethic of Resistance: Resisting Not Just Power, but the Race for Power original ↗

7 Jul 2025

Aldous Huxley: Other People’s Lives are Ultimately Unknowable original ↗

26 Jun 2025

Should Parenting Require a License?original ↗

23 Jun 2025

Ubuntu Philosophy: Wealth Resides in the Health of the Community original ↗

2 Jun 2025

Beyond Money: Martha Nussbaum on Living a Flourishing Human Life original ↗

26 May 2025

Ruth Chang on Making Difficult Life Decisions original ↗

19 May 2025

Do Neurons Push Thoughts Around? Or Do Thoughts Push Neurons Around?original ↗

12 May 2025

The Paradox of Choice: Barry Schwartz on Why More is Less original ↗

6 May 2025

‘Dao’ in Chinese Philosophy: Harmonizing with the Way original ↗

28 Apr 2025

Erich Fromm on Why Love is Not About Finding ‘the One’original ↗

14 Apr 2025

True Wealth Lies in Friendship: Epicurus and Ho Kepos original ↗

6 Apr 2025

Kierkegaard: Life Can Only Be Understood Backwards, But It Must Be Lived Forwards original ↗

28 Mar 2025

Plato’s Scala Amoris: the Ladder of Love original ↗

25 Mar 2025

If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and There’s No One Around to Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?original ↗

16 Mar 2025

Thucydides’s Melian Dialogue: Can International Politics Be Fair?original ↗

3 Mar 2025

Nietzsche on Friends Growing Apart original ↗

24 Feb 2025

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17 Feb 2025

Hannah Arendt: 5 Insights into Totalitarianism original ↗

10 Feb 2025

What’s Made the World Wonderful Recently?original ↗

3 Feb 2025

Finding Rapture in the Humdrum: Cultivating Wonder for Everyday Life original ↗

29 Jan 2025

Nietzsche’s Perspectivism: What Does ‘Objective Truth’ Really Mean?original ↗

19 Jan 2025

Catherine of Siena on How Wealth Corrupts Justice original ↗

14 Jan 2025

How To Set Better New Year’s Resolutions: Focus On Processes, Not Outcomes original ↗

8 Jan 2025

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Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness original ↗

9 Dec 2024

James Baldwin: Suffering Can Become a Force for Good original ↗

18 Nov 2024

John Stuart Mill and Daniel Dennett on How to Critique ‘the Other Side’original ↗

6 Nov 2024

Laurie Ann Paul on How to Approach Transformative Decisions original ↗

21 Oct 2024

Hunter S. Thompson: Don’t Look for Goals, Look for a Way of Life original ↗

15 Oct 2024

Do You Recall Asking Philosophical Questions as a Child?original ↗

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24 Sept 2024

Nietzsche On What ‘Finding Yourself’ Actually Means original ↗

16 Sept 2024

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Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil original ↗

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Pantheism: Spinoza and the God that Einstein Believed In original ↗

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John Rawls: How a ‘Veil of Ignorance’ Can Help Us Build a Just Society original ↗

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10 Jun 2024

5 Existential Problems All Humans Share original ↗

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The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: the Cure for Suffering original ↗

21 May 2024

Compatibilism: Philosophy’s Favorite Answer to the Free Will Debate original ↗

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7 Apr 2024

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2 Apr 2024

Iris Murdoch on the Morality of Attention, and the Hostile Mother-in-Law original ↗

25 Mar 2024

The Apollonian and Dionysian: Nietzsche On Art and the Psyche original ↗

17 Mar 2024

The Sublime: Edmund Burke on the Feeling Thunderstorms Give You original ↗

11 Mar 2024

Why Nature vs. Nurture is a False Dichotomy: Mary Midgley original ↗

4 Mar 2024

Peter Singer On the Life You Can (and Should) Save original ↗

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20 Feb 2024

Authentic Love: Simone de Beauvoir on What Makes a Healthy Relationship original ↗

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23 Jan 2024

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The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number: What Bentham Really Meant original ↗

18 Dec 2023

The Porcupine’s Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Wistful Parable On Human Connection original ↗

28 Nov 2023

Sartre’s Waiter, ‘Bad Faith’, and the Harms of Inauthenticity original ↗

24 Nov 2023

Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society: Our Only Imperative is to Achieve original ↗

21 Nov 2023

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Seneca: To Find Peace, Stop Chasing Unfulfillable Desires original ↗

3 Nov 2023

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance Summary (and PDF): Become Your Own Person original ↗

17 Oct 2023

Mengzi vs. Xunzi On Human Nature: Are We Good or Evil?original ↗

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Life, Insanity, and Legacy original ↗

26 Sept 2023

Stoicism and Emotion: Don’t Repress Your Feelings, Reframe Them original ↗

8 Sept 2023

Existence Precedes Essence: What Sartre Really Meant original ↗

24 Aug 2023

The Dichotomy of Control: a Stoic Device for a Tranquil Mind original ↗

1 Aug 2023

Isaiah Berlin On Why the Pursuit of the Ideal is Dangerous original ↗

25 Jul 2023

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18 Jul 2023

The Buddha On Ending Suffering: the Parable of the Poisoned Arrow original ↗

12 Jul 2023