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fromThe Conversation
49 minutes ago

Thecla, the beast fighter: The saint who faced down lions and killer seals is one of many 'leading ladies' in early Christian texts

The Christian apocrypha highlight prominent, courageous women like Thecla who preached, baptized, and performed miracles, unlike the New Testament where women rarely star.
Philosophy
fromAeon
9 hours ago

Why the best way to understand the self is to build a robot one | Aeon Essays

The self is dual: simultaneously subject (the knower) and object (the known), extending beyond the body to include possessions, actions, and self-concepts.
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fromAeon
9 hours ago

Why Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx | Aeon Essays

Left and Right originated from French Revolutionary seating and remain conceptually messy because economic class, public policy and voting patterns do not align neatly.
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fromAeon
3 hours ago

When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays

The modern linear conception of time arose in the 18th century; earlier Western thought conceived time as cyclical, tied to celestial cycles and eternal recurrence.
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fromAeon
9 hours ago

Dying to be green: are new eco funerals a false promise? | Aeon Essays

Traditional burial and cremation significantly harm the environment, prompting development of ecological alternatives such as tree burial, human composting, and microbial transformation.
Philosophy
fromAeon
9 hours ago

The loving lies a father wrote to his daughter from a gulag | Aeon Videos

Meteorologist Alexei Vangengheim was purged, imprisoned at Solovetsky, executed in 1937; his gulag letters disguised as Arctic botanical research reveal human persistence.
Philosophy
fromAeon
9 hours ago

A breezy ode to wind ponders its power, beauty and utility | Aeon Videos

Wind Keepers cinematically reveals how wind shapes daily life in Viana do Castelo through intimate images and collaborative student filmmaking.
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fromAeon
9 hours ago

How islanders of Oceania built fearsome armour without metal | Aeon Videos

Traditional Kiribati armour and weapons were woven from coconut fibre, human hair, sharks' teeth and porcupine fish and used in ritualized combat to minimize violence.
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fromPsychology Today
8 hours ago

Missing the Children I Never Had

A bittersweet, enduring longing for imagined children embodies saudade: a desire that acknowledges absence and expects no resolution.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago
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Minds All the Way Down

Panpsychism posits consciousness as a fundamental property of all matter, yet its claims about science, metaphysics, and empirical engagement face substantive critique.
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago
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Is Consciousness Everywhere?

Panpsychism posits consciousness in all matter, yet remains theoretical and mirrors creationist-style resistance to scientific explanations of consciousness.
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fromThe Conversation
1 day ago

The hidden power of grief rituals

Funeral rituals mobilize substantial resources and communal participation, creating intense shared grief and strong social bonds across personal and national communities.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
18 hours ago

Garden as a Performance

Garden art composes natural materials into picturesque, visually varied vistas—"growing music"—emphasizing harmonious composition, technical craft, and continual temporal change.
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
1 day ago

Call for Abstracts of Papers: Timothy Williamson Encountering Chinese Philosophy

Fudan University's School of Philosophy will host a funded conference on Timothy Williamson and Chinese philosophy, November 6–7, 2026, culminating in an edited volume.
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fromPsychology Today
23 hours ago

How Did Meaning Emerge in a Meaningless Universe?

Meaning arises when physical correlations acquire evolutionary significance in living systems, grounding aboutness in biological value, neural representations, social symbols, and cultural narratives.
fromBig Think
18 hours ago

The hard problem of consciousness, in 53 minutes

My work focuses on what makes consciousness such a deeply perplexing phenomenon and a mysterious phenomenon, why it's so difficult for scientists to study it, and because it's such a mysterious phenomenon still within neuroscience, part of my work has also been to connect different disciplines that aren't usually in dialogue. With consciousness studies, if we're interested in asking the question about whether consciousness goes deeper in nature than the sciences have previously assumed, we start to come out of neuroscience
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Do Aliens from Other Planets Also Believe in Gods?

My prediction is based on only two assumptions. First, our visitors from space can die; they are not immortal. Second, they care about each other. When one of their own dies, they mourn them, just as humans do. These assumptions, I think, will have led these aliens to invent gods and a belief in the afterlife. Belief in the afterlife, where we defeat death and are reunited with loved ones who have died, is the basis of all past and current religions.
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fromwww.amny.com
23 hours ago

MoMA's 2026 Marcel Duchamp exhibit promises a cultural reckoning amNewYork

Art's value shifted from craft and visual pleasure to intellectual proposition and intention; the readymade relocated meaning from the hand to the mind.
fromFast Company
1 day ago

How the 'Rule of 3' framework simplifies tough decisions

Why not A? A is usually the default for most people. The thing you're already doing. The path of least resistance. It doesn't need your help. What you need are alternatives. Then comes the second step, and this is where most people stop thinking too soon. Now, for each path, think through: First-order effects Second-order outcomes And third-order consequences And then, and this matters, choose the path with the most meaningful but least life-changing consequences.
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fromBusiness Matters
2 days ago

What Changes When You Start Thinking Beyond Your Own Lifetime

Often, people make financial decisions based on what they need for themselves in the future. However, those who think about their families beyond their own lifetimes have a better chance not only of leaving wealth behind but also of ensuring it grows. It's never too late, either. A good way to give loved ones a head start, whether they are taking on a business or just needing to pay for a funeral, is with a good life insurance policy.
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fromApaonline
1 day ago

Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy

Economic democracy should be reframed as intrinsically linked to political democracy, reintegrating economic and political spheres rather than merely extending political democracy into firms.
fromThe Conversation
2 days ago

For some Jewish women, 'passing' as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival - but left scars all the same

During the Holocaust, trying to "pass" as non-Jewish was often more feasible for women than men. Some Jewish women, like Schüpper Rufeisen, took the risk in order to join resistance efforts against the Nazis and their collaborators. Most Jews who tried to pass, however, did so simply to remain alive in a system designed to murder them. Passing took many forms.
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fromThe Conversation
2 days ago

Building 'beloved community': Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh

My new book, " On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World," is inspired by King and Hanh's friendship. These two men bonded over the shared insight that how we show up for each other matters, as does how we advocate for social change. In his sermon " Loving Your Enemies" King announced, "Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Hanh taught: There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

The story of 'synergy,' the word we love to hate

Stop for a second, if you have bandwidth, because there's a word we'd like to flag: synergy. It sounds like it means something good, but it's unclear exactly what. It's something your bosses might say. There's pretty much a 0% chance you've said "synergy" in casual conversation. "It's the ultimate buzzword. It's the one that everybody thinks of when they think of business jargon," says Erica Brozovsky, a sociolinguist who hosts the PBS series Otherwords.
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fromApaonline
3 days ago

The Perceptual World of Danger

Perception operates in multiple modes; under threat perception switches to an Alert mode with a distinct function, affective phenomenology, and temporal profile.
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fromApaonline
2 days ago

Why I Support the Virtual APA: How I Hate Virtual Conferences and Why I Keep Attending Them

Virtual conferences expand access for those who cannot travel and reduce travel-related carbon emissions, so willingness to try improved virtual formats is essential.
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Texas Sends Plato Back to His Cave

Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him his sophisms, futilities, & incomprehensibilities, and what remains?
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

The Fall of Imagination

AI-generated resonance can deliver instant-fit understanding, bypassing imaginative hypothesis-making and shrinking the mental space where original thought develops.
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fromThe Nation
3 days ago

How Has the Idea of Revolution Changed?

Revolution originally meant a return to political origins rather than novelty; the Enlightenment recast revolution as progressive break from the past.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

How and Why We Use, Downplay, or Ignore Evidence

The scientific method, though imperfect, remains the best tool for critical thinking and for defending democratic justice against misinformation and cognitive biases.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Is Romantic Curiosity a Virtue?

Romantic dating and shopping are both goal-directed; romantic window-shopping delivers short-term enjoyment from curiosity but rarely leads to long-term relationship outcomes.
fromLady Freethinker
3 days ago

Author Charlotte Laws on Power, Animals, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

One is " Omniocracy," a sweeping work of political philosophy decades in the making, proposing a new ethical foundation for society that rejects moral absolutes and instead grounds moral consideration for all beings in science and policy. In Laws' view, traditional political systems are inherently prejudiced: they work for humans only, excluding the vast majority of sentient beings. An omniocracy, she argues, would account for all living beings as constituents whose interests must be weighed in the decisions that affect them.
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fromWarpweftandway
4 days ago

ToC: Asian Studies 14:1

Confucian ethics and classical Chinese thought are applied to pacifism, technology, AI, and social philosophy to explore allies, justice, and peaceful coexistence.
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fromAeon
4 days ago

The tragic life and principled politics of Tran uc Thao | Aeon Essays

Trần Đức Thảo split from Jean-Paul Sartre after failed attempts to reconcile Marxism with Sartrean existentialism, concluding phenomenology could not adequately explain human nature.
fromblog.apaonline.org
4 days ago

How to Handle the Death of the Essay

If you don't know it, Ecclesiastes is a collection of Old Testament verses in which the eponymous title character discourses on the apparent meaninglessness of pleasure, accomplishment, wealth, politics, and life itself in the face of the infinitude of the universe and the absolute perfection of God. It is the source of many of our most cliched phrases, such as there is a time for everything and there is nothing new under the sun.
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fromAeon
4 days ago

How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness | Aeon Essays

Carved on the walls surrounding her sarcophagus were more than 150 ancient Greek poems in which Bilitis recounted her life, from her childhood in Pamphylia in present-day Turkey to her adventures on the islands of Lesbos and Cyprus, where she would eventually come to rest. Heim diligently copied down this treasure trove of poems, which had not seen the light of day for more than two millennia.
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fromAeon
4 days ago

Groundbreaking visuals capture how our bodies repair damaged DNA | Aeon Videos

Drew Berry creates striking biomedical animations that visualize microscopic biological processes like DNA repair, revealing intricate evolution-shaped cellular mechanisms.
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fromAeon
4 days ago

Should we intensively alter coral reefs so they can survive the heat? | Aeon Essays

Florida's 2023 marine heatwave produced record ocean temperatures, killing corals and forcing urgent extraction and rescue efforts constrained by funding and permitting requirements.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
4 days ago

What is Christian Reconstructionism and why it matters in US politics

Society should be governed by biblical principles, including applying Old Testament civil penalties within modern legal and cultural systems.
Philosophy
fromAeon
4 days ago

Why millennia of history echo in each strum of a Persian tar | Aeon Videos

Hamed Sadeghi’s tar playing connects modern technique with millennia of Persian history while reclaiming lost Iranian classical music through emotional, heart-centered performance.
Philosophy
fromAeon
4 days ago

The patient labour of building ties in a city far from home | Aeon Videos

A Jamaican immigrant in Munich finds belonging through an LGBTQ+-inclusive rugby team while confronting persistent loneliness and the patient labour of building new roots.
Philosophy
fromAeon
4 days ago

Are online communities for chronic illness doing more harm than good? | Aeon Essays

Abundant medical information and online communities can paradoxically deepen suffering for people with stigmatized chronic conditions that lack social legitimacy.
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Introspection and Consciousness: The Illusionism Debate

In my previous post, I summarized my response to Christian de Weerd, who denied that a Darwinian approach to consciousness is even possible. I argued that consciousness science has unnecessarily insulated itself from the evolutionary tools that revolutionized our understanding of every other biological phenomenon, and that treating human consciousness as the paradigm case distorts our picture of consciousness as a natural phenomenon spanning millions of species across millions of years.
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fromAbove the Law
3 days ago

Legal Ethics Roundup: 'Rogue Judges' Senate Hearing, TX Ends ABA Oversight, Judge Charged Over 'Book Of Grudges,' Predictions For 2026 & More - Above the Law

A legal-ethics intelligence brief synthesizes dispersed, fast-moving lawyer and judicial ethics developments to reveal implications for institutional integrity and future governance.
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fromFuncheap
4 days ago

"Sunday Assembly" Silicon Valley Community Gathering | Mountain View

Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley is a radically inclusive secular nonprofit celebrating life, building community, encouraging service, and helping people live purpose-driven, connected lives.
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Why 'Think Rationally' Isn't Always the Answer

In January 1986, NASA engineers knew the Space Shuttle Challenger's O-rings had never been tested in freezing temperatures. They recommended delaying the launch. Managers asked: Could the engineers prove it was unsafe? They couldn't-they could only say the system hadn't been designed for these conditions. Under pressure, the engineers withdrew their recommendation. The next morning, Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts.
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fromElite Traveler
5 days ago

Bertrand's Townhouse Goes For Character Over Amenities

Set beyond a fairly unassuming entrance - save for a red carpet lining the stone steps - Bertrand's Townhouse is a newly opened hotel (just this month, in fact) in London' s Bloomsbury neighborhood. Tucked down a street just off from the pretty Bloomsbury Square, the hotel is named for Bertrand Russell, the renowned British philosopher and writer. He was part of the Bloomsbury Set (sort of - he was considered to be more on the periphery), a network of British writers, artists, and intellectuals.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Teaching Normative and Applied Ethics: How, and to What End? Stephen Scher

Two senior physicians who had read our first book, Rethinking Health Care Ethics (2018), noted that in their clinical work, they inescapably address many ethical problems, large and small, on the spot, in the course of providing patient care. They also observed, however, that the resident bioethicist cautioned, when presented with one of their typical problems, that it would take him days or even weeks to reach a proper solution.
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fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

The 17th-century Pueblo leader who fought for independence from colonial rule - long before the American Revolution

The U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall Collection contains 100 sculptures: two luminaries from each state. They include many familiar figures, such as Helen Keller, Johnny Cash, Ronald Reagan and Amelia Earhart. There are a few from the Colonial era, including founders such as Samuel Adams and George Washington. Some will also be represented in the Garden of American Heroes that the Trump administration plans to build. The monument will eventually have 250 statues, and the administration has proposed a list of names.
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fromApaonline
6 days ago

Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation

Aesthetic attention that silences the self can cultivate the patient, clear vision required for genuine loving relationships.
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Don't Get Lost in Translation

Led Zeppelin warned us about the perils of misunderstood communications in relationships. Failing to translate what we are trying to say or do so that someone else gets it is the root of so many problems. But translation is a fantastic find when it goes right. Here are some things I've learned about translating meaning from a lifetime of speaking numerous languages, practicing a wide array of martial arts, and communicating science.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Is Life a Game?

Play—self-directed, intrinsically scored activity—provides meaning by resisting external metrics and preventing value capture from ranking, quantification, and instrumental evaluation.
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fromVaughntan
1 week ago

Judgment from the ground up - Vaughn Tan

Organizations must train junior staff in critical thinking and subjective decisionmaking through low-stakes, real decisions to avoid bottlenecks and succession crises.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago
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Why Stoicism treats self-control as a form of intelligence

A good human life uses reason to solve problems, prioritizes pro-social cooperation, and focuses on what is within one's control while accepting what is not.
fromBig Think
1 week ago
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Why Stoicism fails when treated like self-help

Live realistically by using reason, focusing energy where personal agency matters, and accepting what cannot be controlled.
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fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

Seeking honor is a double-edged sword - from ancient Greece to samurai Japan, thinkers have wrestled with whether it's the way to virtue

The pursuit of honor shapes warrior identity: it can motivate true virtue or distort behavior, reflecting a long debate about proper warrior ethics across cultures.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

Of AI, Unreality and Our Planetary Reality

AI-generated content increasingly blends into everyday life, creating immersive digital unreality while driving massive energy and water demands through oversized data centers.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

The Moral Life of Organs in an Age of Technological Innovation

Transplant technology is rapidly expanding organ viability through advanced perfusion, preservation, and logistics while implementation outpaces oversight and public input.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Becoming Nobody

Ego dissolution from psychedelics parallels Buddhist non-self, reducing clinging and increasing well-being, belonging, and openness by revealing impermanence and expansive selfhood.
fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Larry Magid: Does generative AI weaken critical thinking?

Not a new issue Before getting into the research, I'm reminded of similar concerns raised about earlier technologies, beginning with Socrates, who worried that writing would erode our reliance on memory and make it possible to appear knowledgeable without truly understanding what we claim to know. As absurd as that may sound in 2026, in some sense, he was right. Written sources give us indirect knowledge of events we didn't witness ourselves and allow us to revisit information when we need to refresh our memory.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How to Reframe Altruism

Altruism and empathy should be reframed as communal, embodied practices that use analogue communication to sustain interdependency and collective well‑being.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

5 Traits of Wisdom

Wisdom is a domain-general, metacognitive capacity grounded in epistemological understanding and critical thinking, distinct from experience-based expertise, and includes awareness of one’s knowledge limits.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

What the Second Law of Thermodynamics Reveals About Being Human

Humans, as physical beings, seek significance; creating order from nature's chaos enables a good life even if complete happiness is unattainable.
fromBig Think
1 week ago

Zeno's Paradox resolved by physics, not by math alone

The fastest human in the world, according to the Ancient Greek legend, was the heroine Atalanta. Although she was a famous huntress who joined Jason and the Argonauts in the search for the golden fleece, she was most renowned for the one avenue in which she surpassed all other humans: her speed. While many boasted of how swift or fleet-footed they were, Atalanta outdid them all. No one possessed the capabilities to defeat her in a fair footrace.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

Not Yet: A Graduate Student's First Publication

Graduate students often face cautious mentorship that delays submission; trusting one’s judgment can result in successful publication despite initial skepticism.
fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

How tourism, a booming wellness culture and social media are transforming the age-old Japanese tea ceremony

One of Japan's most recognizable cultural practices - the Japanese tea ceremony, known as chanoyu, or chadō - is being reshaped by tourism, wellness culture and social media. Matcha, the Japanese powdered green tea that is used during the ceremony, has entered the global marketplace. Influencers post highly curated tearoom photos, wellness brands market matcha as a "superfood," and cafés worldwide present whisked green tea as a symbol of mindful living.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

The Limits of "Indoctrination" Talk

Debates over education often conflate ideological disagreement with genuine indoctrination; principled procedural criteria can help distinguish indoctrination from legitimate education.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Break Free Of Your Own Reality Bubble

The word umwelt comes from biology, coined by ethologists studying animals in their natural habitats. It refers to the world as an organism can perceive it, based entirely on its sensory equipment. A bat's umwelt is built from echo. A dog's from scent. A tick's world is dominated by a single chemical cue that tells it when to drop from a branch onto a passing mammal.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Can Accepting Our Biological Heritage Improve the World?

Biological imperative centers on protecting, promoting, and propagating genetic code, shaping behavior, sex-specific roles, physiology, and intergenerational wellbeing.
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fromPortland Mercury
1 week ago

Pagh'tem'far, b'tanay

Take responsibility now by humbling yourself and making amends; otherwise life will force harsher, less merciful consequences and rewrite your narrative.
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Why We Should Doubt that Academic Philosophy Benefits the Broader Public

A professional philosopher outside the academy walls can act as a popularizer (the goal here is to make philosophy more accessible to the general public), an applied ethicist (the major task is to offer an analysis of various specific moral issues that arise within a society), and a public intellectual (I limit this role to questions that have political connotation). Of course, there are overlaps between these roles and they certainly do not exhaust all possible forms of public engagement of a professional philosopher.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

When Others Must Confirm My Ego

A culture of recognition shifts attention inward, turning morality into performative identity signaling and weakening genuine ethical attention to others.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Mystery of Evil

It is easy to be good in a good world. What is difficult is to be good in an evil world, where the egoism of others and the egoism built into the institutions of society attack us and threaten to annihilate us. Under such conditions, the only possible reaction would seem to be to oppose evil with evil, egoism with egoism, hate with hate; in short, to annihilate the aggressor with his own weapons.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

The Dream Of Life Without Sleep Is Actually A Dystopian Nightmare

We spend one-third of our lives asleep. This biological fact is something that, with time and technology, is less and less taken for granted. In many science fiction stories, the future of sleep is cozy and idyllic - an elevated state living within dream world. In others, sleep is more of an evolutionary shackle that gets in the way of productivity. The latter focuses on questions that haunt anyone who feels there are not enough hours in the day. What if we didn't have to sleep?
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Score by C Thi Nguyen review a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life

Two years ago, I started learning Japanese on Duolingo. At first, the daily accrual of vocabulary was fun. Every lesson earned me experience points a little reward that measured and reinforced my progress. But something odd happened. Over time, my focus shifted. As I climbed the weekly leaderboards, I found myself favouring lessons that offered the most points for the least effort.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

What explains the perpetual need for political enemies? | Aeon Essays

Political identities and movements often center on opposition and grievance, sustaining mobilization by constantly naming enemies and threats.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

CPP and Ethics Bowl: Powerful Partners for Peace, Matt Deaton

Ethics Bowl cultivates democratic, collaborative, principled dialogue that reduces political hostility and fosters peace through reasoned, international engagement.
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Shaping Each Other's Vision: Collective Intentionality and the Zohran Mamdani Campaign

Mamdani's campaign is unique and his success extraordinary in several respects: he went from polling at 1% to defeating his opponents by a landslide margin in just over one year; his campaign recruited over one hundred thousand volunteers, engaging first-time voters and immigrants typically overlooked or deliberately excluded from electoral politics; and his platform was centered on affordability-not only the most deeply felt issue for the vast majority of New Yorkers (and, increasingly, others around the country),
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fromAeon
1 week ago

Teens battle grease and gravity in this lively street game | Aeon Videos

In this instalment from Avintes in Portugal, he captures a group of teenagers playing a game known as pau de sebo - which loosely translates as 'greasy pole' - in which, rather appropriately, participants attempt to climb a grease-coated wooden pole to claim prizes hanging from its peak. On this occasion, salted cod, a teddy bear and small guitars hang from a ring at the apex,
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fromwww.esquire.com
1 week ago

How to Improve Your Life in 2026

Society is becoming intellectually diminished, losing attention, interaction, and critical thinking; people must actively revive and defend their minds through engaged cultural practices.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Can you solve it? Are you as smart as Spock?

Three players take turns removing up to ten cookies; avoiding sole-most or sole-least outcomes takes priority over maximizing cookies, determining the final allocation.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Heroism Isn't Either Real or Imagined-It's Both

Are heroes real, or are they simply stories we tell ourselves? Either heroes are objectively real-brave people who perform extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice-or heroism is merely in our heads, a social construction shaped by culture, media, and wishful thinking. This debate shows up everywhere: in classrooms, in popular culture, and even among scholars who study heroism for a living.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Gilles Lipovetsky: If you want to live better and fall in love, take Prozac, don't look to philosophy'

Kitsch and vulgarity have shifted to the center of life, revealing contemporary hypermodernity defined by aesthetics, consumption, and excess.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Do Numbers Exist Beyond the Mind? Challenging Jung's Claim

When I was learning multiplication, my father showed me the "rule of 9." Multiply any number by 9, he said, and then add together the digits of the product, and you will always land on 9. 9 × 2 = 18 → 1 + 8 = 9 9 × 3 = 27 → 2 + 7 = 9 9 × 12 = 108 → 1 + 0 + 8 = 9 Every time, the addition came back to 9. It stimulated my curiosity.
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fromMedium
1 week ago

Truth and certainty

Mandatory social certainty and inherited religious practice turn faith into shallow performance, preventing individual inward struggle and authentic conviction.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Most Urgent Question

In another, adapted from Theodore Parker, a 19th-century abolitionist preacher, Dr. King points to another aspect of his dream. King writes, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." The first quote points to individual behavior, the second toward social action. Dr. King didn't emphasize one approach over the other. For him, personal and social morality were of a piece. A good world is one that is both kind and just.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How to Have Better Political Conversations

Dialogue is a distinct, learning-focused conversation seeking shared understanding and mutual improvement, whereas debate is adversarial and aims to win.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Waiting for the Out review totally magnificent TV about philosophy in prison

Teaching philosophy in prison fits because incarcerated people confront urgent questions about regret, causality, freedom and life while enduring isolation and constrained choices.
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
1 week ago

Which One Are You? Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala

In May 1968 French students mounted a mass uprising rejecting establishment authority and asserting existential freedom to break social conventions.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Let It Go: Rethinking Our Cosmic Purpose

Craving technological immortality misidentifies distant non-human descendants as 'us' and undermines the imperative to accept death and live fully now.
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fromYogaRenew
2 weeks ago

Samadhi - The Goal of Yoga

The true goal of yoga is attaining Samadhi—realizing the eternal soul beyond body and mind—while physical and mental benefits are beneficial side effects.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Rousseau's Shocking Sex Life

Rousseau fled Geneva at 16, converted to Catholicism, formed a lifelong bond with Françoise-Louise de Warens, and later worked as tutor and secretary.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Return With Wisdom: An Ancient Principle for the New Year

Returning to the same situation can be mindless repetition (kyklos) or a wisdom-enriched, purposeful return (epistrophe) that fosters development.
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fromBustle
2 weeks ago

Your New Year's Day Horoscope

Confusion early in the day calls for delaying big decisions; by mid-afternoon, grounded Capricorn energy helps structure plans into achievable priorities.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Welcome to the post-religion era: The idea of Christianity as the absolute truth has become obsolete

Tis the season to occupy oneself in eating and drinking like there's no tomorrow, in the wonderful warmth of friends and family, remembering those who are no longer with us and locking eyes as we toast to the river of time and the year to come. Some will go to Mass, many to buy presents, and almost none of us will think for even a moment of that unknown land between this world and the next.
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fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

Rot, Rinse, Repeat

Social-media-optimized, low-effort content creates feedback loops that degrade attention and language, and these patterns become reinforced when folded into future model training.
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