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Taisu Zhang at Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar on 11/7

Law and legality supply the Party-state with perceived sociopolitical legitimacy, increasing public acceptance of legalized constraints and signaling rejection of Confucian political morality.
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fromThe Conversation
2 hours ago

Building a stable 'abode of thought': Kant's rules for virtuous thinking

Virtuous thinking requires autonomy, perspective-taking, and internal harmony to foster communal understanding and resist passive, heteronomous conformity.
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fromApaonline
2 hours ago

Slackers Against Narrativity

Narrativity—the tendency to construct life stories—is widespread, but the ethical claim that narrativity is essential to a well-lived life is disputed.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 hours ago

What we misunderstand in the debate over free speech | Avram Alpert

Free speech requires free thought rooted in conscientious, critical, humble inquiry rather than speech driven by prejudice, profit, hatred, or manipulation.
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fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 hours ago

Remembering Dennis Wayne Rothermel, philosophy professor who wrote about peace, filmmaking and food

Dennis Wayne Rothermel, longtime California State University, Chico philosophy professor and film scholar, died Oct. 5 at 76, leaving extensive publications and passions for art.
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fromAeon
4 hours ago

A radical reimagining of physics puts information at its centre | Aeon Videos

A proposed law of increasing functional information treats information as fundamental, explaining rising complexity across systems and offering insight into the nature of time.
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fromAeon
4 hours ago

Medicine is uncertain: embracing that makes doctors better | Aeon Essays

Clinical practice routinely involves pervasive uncertainty that forces clinicians to make judgment calls without formal guidance, causing emotional strain and ad hoc coping strategies.
fromThe Walrus
4 hours ago

Night Office | The Walrus

He had a history of chat: twenty-five years a garrulous Jesuit before his leap to Benedict and the cheese-maker monks, Oka's most unsilent man.
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fromAeon
1 day ago

Beyond fortune-telling - the enduring beauty and allure of tarot | Aeon Videos

Tarot began as a card game for the Italian elite and evolved into a richly symbolic visual language spanning art, folklore, astrology, and contemporary practice.
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fromApaonline
1 day ago

Healthcare Ethics, Gisela Reyes

Pre-health education must prioritize empathy, humility, and ethical reasoning alongside scientific knowledge to prepare students for complex clinical and biotechnological challenges.
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fromThe Conversation
1 day ago

Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may depend on deep-seated values - and your country's economy

Cultural context and moral intuitions—especially equality and purity—strongly shape whether extreme wealth is viewed as immoral or acceptable.
fromBig Think
1 day ago

Is free will a fallacy? Science and philosophy explain.

Neuroscience is a newcomer to the field of free will. What are exactly the kind of questions that are worth asking? What different kinds of experiments that can say something about conscious and unconscious decisions can help us be more modest in what we realize we can control, and what we can't? Generally, humans have a sense that they control themselves and sometimes their environment more than they do.
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fromBig Think
23 hours ago

6 Japanese concepts you need to know, according to Marie Kondo

People really like Japanese philosophy. If you ever see a list of "untranslatable words" or "beautiful words from around the world," then you will notice how Japanese ideas are often overrepresented. Whenever I explore a Japanese concept on the Mini Philosophy social media pages - wabi- sabi, mono no aware, ikigai - they outperform almost everything else. Part of this, no doubt, is a kind of exoticism.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Iris Murdoch's poems on bisexuality to be published read one exclusively here

Previously unpublished poems by Iris Murdoch reveal her bisexuality and intimate life across nearly 60 years, offering autobiographical insight.
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fromPsychology Today
23 hours ago

The Science, and Mystery, of Knowing When You'll Die

Many dying people sense death's imminence, often before doctors or loved ones, reflecting spiritual conviction and physiological changes.
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fromAeon
2 days ago

The rise and now fall of the Maoist movement in India | Aeon Essays

Maoist guerrillas ambushed Indian paramilitary forces in Chhattisgarh in 2010, killing 75 soldiers and exposing Maoist strength and control over mineral-rich regions.
fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

Yoga: A Living Philosophy

Just as an Indian carpet is interwoven with many threads of various colors to produce a perceivable pattern of harmony, Indian writings and religion are interwoven, perhaps in an even more complex way, to produce the pattern we have come to know as Indian philosophy. But for the novice, this pattern can be more than confusing; it can be overwhelming. Actually, one can begin in a systematic way to study and discover the various teachings of Indian philosophy, such as Yoga.
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fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

Remembering Alan Watts

Alan Watts popularized Eastern religions in the West, rejecting rigid authority and conventions while emphasizing present-based knowledge and unconventional, poetic expression.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Why Nihilism Is Lazy and Harmful

Meaning arises from personal decisions and engagement rather than existing as an objective cosmic property; escaping reality has varying moral and practical values.
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fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

Seeing What Is...and Going Beyond It

Jiddu Krishnamurti renounced his role as an appointed spiritual savior and taught that individuals must strip attachments and rely on solitary inquiry rather than institutions.
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fromBig Think
2 days ago

What sea slugs can teach us about the nature of consciousness

Brains generate meaning by abstracting and memorizing patterns, challenging the perceived gap between physical brain processes and subjective mind.
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fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

Common Obstacles to Spiritual Growth

Asana practice surfaces klesas—egoism, aversion, desire, clinging to life, and ignorance—enabling observation of body, mind, and spirit toward integration.
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fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

10 Things I Learned From Flipping Through 50 Years of Yoga Journal

A print magazine preserves cultural history, documenting yoga's evolution and offering a tangible archive reflecting decades of practice, philosophy, and editorial stewardship.
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fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

Yoga in the 1980s: Precision, Props, and a Little-Known Practice

Yoga moved from relative obscurity in early 1980s America to widespread celebrity-driven popularity and fitness commercialization by the decade's end.
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fromThe Conversation
3 days ago

The Erie Canal: How a 'big ditch' transformed America's economy, culture and even religion

The Erie Canal's construction revolutionized American economy, tied the Midwest to Atlantic trade, spurred immigration and religious revival, and faced intense political opposition.
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fromApaonline
2 days ago

Terranias and the Philosophical Urgency of the Anthropocene

Philosophy must be rethought collaboratively and interdisciplinarily from southern and earthly perspectives to address ecological and political challenges of the Anthropocene.
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fromAeon
3 days ago

Children of the Holocaust buried their identities to survive | Aeon Essays

Jerzy Kosinski's encounter with a reader in a Manhattan bookstore reveals his troubled reputation and the haunting emotional power of The Painted Bird.
fromAeon
3 days ago

A project takes teens from war-torn regions to schools in Canada | Aeon Videos

This short 1986 documentary follows the International Youth for Peace and Justice Tour, a programme in which teenagers from then-conflict zones around the world visited and spoke with high-school students across Canada. Capturing the tour's stop in Montreal, the director Premika Ratnam introduces viewers to teens from unstable or war-torn nations of the period - including Northern Ireland, East Timor, Namibia, Zimbabwe, El Salvador and Guatemala - as they recount their experiences. With wisdom often beyond their years, they discuss a range of hardships, from daily indignities and lack of job opportunities to witnessing torture and murder and fearing for their lives.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

The Redemptive Power of Suffering and Evil

The phenomenon of evil has always been part of human existence but is particularly pervasive in our present times. By definition, we think of evil as being purely negative, pernicious, vile, vicious, and destructive. A noxious force and tragic existential fact of life that brings only misery, sorrow, and suffering to those accidentally or intentionally exposed to or victimized by it. Which, to some extent, includes each of us. But can the painful and devastating experience of evil and the profound suffering it brings possibly be productive, growth-enhancing, or psychologically and spiritually transformative? Can good come from evil? Can suffering be redeemed?
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fromMedium
6 days ago

The ecology of a merger

At first, it sounds like a design problem. Or maybe a customer service one. Add new markets, new systems, new customers, and suddenly the challenge is keeping what was working while trying to understand what the future needs to become. But underneath, it's a question about honesty. What if the kind of growth that stretches empathy and deepens awareness (the kind we expect from people) could guide how organizations grow too?
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Finding Happiness in "Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop"

Two millennia ago, Aristotle distinguished between a life lived in pursuit of pleasure, which brings temporary satisfaction, and a life lived according to reason, virtue, and the pursuit of goals, which leads to true happiness. Therapeutic approaches of today tend to agree with Aristotle that fleeting pleasures aren't enough to make us happy and that a subjective sense of well-being stems largely from the way we live our lives.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

From Fire to Sun: Who Taught You to Survive?

Trauma-driven expertise becomes Level A wisdom about threat that is adaptive in danger but maladaptive when carried into safe environments.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
4 days ago

Lisa Herzog, philosopher: We have to fight to not be available outside of work hours'

Employees should democratically organize workplaces to strengthen social cohesion, protect autonomy against algorithmic control, and make paid work more equitable.
fromApaonline
6 days ago

APA Member Interview: Sondra Charbadze

What excites you about philosophy? Its application to everything! As an undergraduate, I was able to conduct research with philosophy professors and a philosophy of psychology professor. Now I teach courses on topics such as philosophical engineering and computer science ethics. And because philosophy is the foundational intellectual discipline, I believe it contains all the resources universities need to navigate rapid changes in information technology, political upheaval, social reorganization, etc. By emphasizing deep reading, critical thinking, and embodied ethics,
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fromAeon
6 days ago

Why I wonder if Virginia Woolf was autistic | Aeon Essays

A parent's shame after filming a tantrum evolves into empathy when vivid sensory prose reveals parallels with an autistic child's overwhelming sensory experience.
fromApaonline
5 days ago

Criminalizing Mental Illness: Cops as Clinicians and Incarceration as Health Care in the United States

It is evident to the responding officers that Harvey is experiencing some sort of delusion, and since they cannot calm him down or convince him of his safety, they opt to detain him. The officers can do so, as in the United States, while the Fourteenth Amendment provides some guardrails to involuntary commitment, there is no federal statute regarding detention, and it is up to their discretion to detain him if they believe he could be a threat to himself or others.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

From Fire to Sun: The Cave You've Mastered

All four levels of the divided line (Conjecture, Opinion, Logic, Abstraction) can exist both inside and outside the cave, enabling deep expertise within wrong realities.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Propaganda has Logical Fallacies (if You Look Close Enough)

Propaganda uses repeated, common-sense talking-points and logical fallacies to create perceived consensus, so critical thinking is needed to reveal hidden meanings and preserve accountability.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom | Aeon Essays

Abundant personalized choice defines modern democratic and consumer life but creates decision difficulties, fosters individualism, and prompts social blame for limited outcomes.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

What would it mean if we were able to 'speak' with whales? | Aeon Videos

Whale song recordings from the 1950s transformed human perceptions, spurred conservation efforts, and inspired Project CETI to decode sperm whale communication toward interspecies dialogue.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

The Danger of Delegating Evil

Therapeutic change begins when the impulse to defend moral innocence softens and clients observe their lives without judgment, recognizing their role in allowing suffering to persist.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?

Classical mechanics implies determinism: complete particle positions and velocities fix past and future, challenging notions of free will.
fromBig Think
6 days ago

Yes, reductionism can explain everything in the whole Universe

There's a statement that one can make that would have been completely non-controversial at the end of the 19th century, but many people both in and out of science would argue against it today. Consider for yourself how you feel about it: "The fundamental laws that govern the smallest constituents of matter and energy, when applied to the Universe over long enough cosmic timescales, can explain everything that will ever emerge."
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fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

How to Get Through the Tough Times

Spiritual desolation often follows initial enthusiasm but can be used as a pathway to personal growth leading to deeper, more lasting consolation.
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fromMedium
6 days ago

The ecology of a merger

Organizations retain trust during growth by maintaining internal conversational feedback—preserving specific empathetic practices rather than defaulting to uniformity and efficiency-driven dilution.
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fromWarpweftandway
1 week ago

Brook Ziporyn's talk on Tiantai Buddhism at Rutgers on Thursday, Oct. 23

Public lecture on Tiantai understanding of Buddha-nature and its practical implications at Rutgers New Brunswick on October 23, 2025, 4–5:30pm.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

How to read 'The School of Athens' - a triumph of Renaissance art | Aeon Videos

The School of Athens fresco unifies Classical and Christian thought by portraying empirical and metaphysical inquiry as equal partners in the pursuit of truth.
fromApaonline
1 week ago

The Price of Being Unrecognized: Epistemic Exclusion and the Burden of Speaking as an Azerbaijani Turk Woman in Academia

Yet, even within these critical frameworks, voices from within the Global South, especially women from marginalized communities, are often excluded or misrecognized. Scholars such as Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, and Lila Abu-Lughod have long argued that women in the Global South are not merely subjects of oppression but thinkers whose epistemic contributions are routinely devalued. They face layered forms of marginalization within both national contexts and transnational academic spaces, with epistemic injustice emerging as one of the most pervasive mechanisms of exclusion.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

Sarah Silverman's "I Love You, America" and World-Traveling

In her article "Playfulness, 'World'-Travelling, and Loving Perception," Maria Lugones describes "world traveling" as the experience of oneself as belonging to a multiplicity of worlds, constituted by different cultural conventions, languages, and histories, which shape a person's self-understanding, behavior, and relation to others. While many engage in what Lugones calls "world-traveling" of necessity, simply by belonging to multiple worlds, she suggests that for others, undertaking world-traveling intentionally, and playfully, can cultivate loving perception across difference.
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fromA List Apart
1 week ago

Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Cafe Culture

Today's web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising "One Weird Trick!" to cure your ailments. Social media sites are tuned for engagement, and few things are more engaging than a fight. Today it seems that people want to quarrel; I have seen flame wars among birders.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

A Look at Personal Development

Only too often, our desire to grow is an indictment of who we are now. There can be an urgency and a striving to be a better person. It's even easier to take pride in an investment in personal improvement and refinement. The attachment to an individual upgrading carries a hope of finally attaining some measure of worth and the possibility of being lovable.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Multifaceted Jewel of Awareness

A jewel is a common metaphor used for awareness in many contemplative traditions. Like a jewel, we could say that awareness is both multi-faceted and precious. I've surveyed a large portion of the traditional and contemporary literature of nonduality from a wide array of traditions such as Buddhism (Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra, Zen, Thai Forest Theravada), Taoism, Hinduism (Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism), and Western mysticism and philosophy (Christian, Sufi, Judaism, Neoplatonism, Pyrrhonism).
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Yo-Yo Ma on What Our Descendants Will Inherit

Yo-Yo Ma urges cultivating enduring virtues, ecological awareness, and interconnection through literature and conversation to create a better world for future generations.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Seeing the Complexity of a Profound Truth Is a Quantum Act

Individual courageous actions ignite collective movements; active hope amid complex crises multiplies and counters fear, blame-shifting, and systemic challenges.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Are large language models the problem, not the solution?

There is an all-out global race for AI dominance. The largest and most powerful companies in the world are investing billions in unprecedented computing power. The most powerful countries are dedicating vast energy resources to assist them. And the race is centered on one idea: transformer-based architecture with large language models are the key to winning the AI race. What if they are wrong?
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fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Biblical angels often appear terrifying, violent, and unlike the gentle, winged figures common in modern imagery.
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Parking Garages: Antithesis or Opportunity for 21st-Century Urbanism?

In an era of people-centered urban planning, 15-minute cities, " eyes on the street," and active public spaces, parking garages are often seen as the antithesis of contemporary urban ideals. But that was not always the case. If today they challenge architects and planners to reinvent them in pursuit of more sustainable mobility and more human cities, in the past they stood as witnesses to a radical transformation in how we move, inhabit, and perceive urban space.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

The "intoxication thesis": The evolutionary benefits of getting drunk

Alcohol consumption and intoxication functioned as adaptive behaviors by promoting social bonding and reproductive advantages despite physiological costs.
fromAeon
1 week ago

Two billion humans are doing something bizarre right now: sleeping | Aeon Essays

After decades of research, there is still no clearly articulated scientific consensus on what sleep is or why it exists. Yet whenever sleep comes up as a topic of discussion, it is quickly reduced to its necessity and importance. Popular media remind us of what can, and will, go wrong if we do not sleep enough, and serve up some handy tips on how to overcome insomnia.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

W(h)ither Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

DEI as an institutional goal arose from Supreme Court affirmative-action reasoning rather than from early federal executive orders that avoided the terms "diversity," "equity," or "inclusion."
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fromWarpweftandway
1 week ago

Episode 26 of "This Is the Way": The White Horse Dialogue-Language, Logic, and Categories in Early China

The predicate 'white' restricts the category 'horse' so that 'white horse' denotes a subset distinct from the general category 'horse'.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Dear James: My Guy Group Has a Nongrowth Mindset

Routine camaraderie can mask personal stagnation; true love recognizes ongoing change and calls for compassionate attention to others' growth and deeper obligations.
fromThe Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
1 week ago

Against The Grain: What's wrong with hauntology? - The Wire

A riff on Jacques Derrida's riff on Karl Marx's claim that "the spectre of communism haunts Europe", hauntology is the name Mark Fisher and his colleagues gave to their perception that "what haunts the digital cul-de-sacs of the 21st century is not so much the past as the lost futures the 20th century taught us to anticipate". Beginning from their perception that (Anglo) electronic music of the early 2000s had been unable to innovate, artistically or technologically, on that of the previous century,
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

5 horrifying stories that double as lessons in philosophy

The best horror stories are those that don't rely on jump scares or bloodied campground killers to frighten. The scariest part of The Wicker Man isn't its eponymous effigy; it's realizing what the natives of Summerisle will do to placate their gods. And while the ghosts haunting the Overlook Hotel may unnerve readers of The Shining, it is Jack Torrance's maniacal relapse that truly grips the spine.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

How to Train Your Brain to Act Morally

He realized that a batch of letters he'd sent to landowners, offering to lease their rights, had incorrect information, including monetary amounts and other details. But instead of correcting the errors, Bentley doubled down, not wanting to admit his mistake. When the letters failed to secure enough land leases to generate big profits, Bentley tried to make up the difference by sinking his investors' money into new, risky deals, some of which faltered and drained the coffers of his company, Bellatorum Resources.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

A father's traditional herbal treatment coincided with the disappearance of a tongue tumour, prompting reassessment of trust in traditional remedies versus digital medical authority.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

After 17 years of addiction, Raina finds a lifeline in compassion | Aeon Videos

Raina battled a 17-year heroin addiction stemming from childhood trauma and homelessness, and recovered after receiving unconditional support from one physician.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

How Can Philosophers Rebuild Trust in Science?

Unchecked misinformation on social media undermines trust in science, fuels conspiracy theories, harms public health, and impedes informed decision-making.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

A Song for Heroes: To Dream the Impossible Dream

Some songs don't just fill the air - they fill the soul. "The Impossible Dream," from the musical Man of La Mancha, is one of those songs. When Don Quixote raises his voice to "fight the unbeatable foe" and "reach the unreachable star," we feel something stir deep inside us - a reminder that life's greatest meaning lies not in comfort or safety, but in courage and conviction.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

These men think they've done nothing wrong': the philosopher who tried to understand Gisele Pelicot's rapists

Twenty thousand images documented Gisele Pelicot's rape; philosophical testimony helped prosecutors explain moral wrongness amid prosecutions of her husband and many men.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Architectural Rebuilding as Cultural Memory: The Paradox of Ever-Fresh Heritage

Architectural identity rests on material fabric, continuous use, or shared recognition; preservation prioritizes matter, maintained form/function, or ritual rebuilding.
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fromThe Nation
1 week ago

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism

Marxism significantly influenced American politics, labor movements, intellectual life, and culture across the 19th–21st centuries despite Marx never visiting the United States.
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fromTasting Table
1 week ago

What Was Mahatma Gandhi's Actual Last Meal? - Tasting Table

Mahatma Gandhi practiced staunch vegetarianism and consumed a vegetarian final meal before his assassination on January 30, 1948.
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fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

How does 'common knowledge' shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

Common knowledge—when everyone knows that everyone knows—shapes rituals, enforced silences, and social harmony, and making it explicit can disrupt social order.
fromThe Philosopher
1 week ago

Hannah Arendt and Exile

In the face of the re-emergence of Trump's border-wall nationalism, Brexit, and increasingly strict European immigration policies, Hannah Arendt's reflections on human rights, statelessness, and her critique of sovereignty raise crucial questions: What could it mean to be a citizen in a political context where there is no nation-state? Can democracy, or more generally politics, be confined to the nation-state? Can we imagine an alternative? Is national affiliation the only framework through which rights can be guaranteed, or can we imagine a politics grounded in human plurality rather than sovereign exclusion?
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Readers reply: Why do people become leftwing or rightwing?

For me, it was seeing that what was offered (by rightwing parties) was not relevant to where I was at the time as a student. I had no money, no job, no connections and no clue about where I wanted to go with my life. But I did know I didn't want to work in London, wearing formal office attire and being a slave to the nine-to-five grind for the rest of my days. The leftwing parties seemed to offer more inclusion and be more welcoming to ordinary folk like me. So that's where I looked for my political home.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Is Fake the New Normal?

We live in an era where the difference between real and artificial no longer startles us. Every day, it's there buzzing behind our screens and selfies. From avatars to synthetic voices and AI-generated images, the fake has become familiar and is an accepted part of our techno diet. But the more interesting question to me isn't how these illusions are made, it's why we all so easily believe them.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

'Psychology of Money' author Morgan Housel follows the same morbid success measure as Warren Buffett-a "reverse obituary" | Fortune

Measure success by the legacy you want—prioritize relationships, community, and purposeful spending over material possessions and follower counts.
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fromwarpweftandway.com
1 week ago

Upcoming Collaborative Learning events

The Collaborative Learning Project will host free, open events on October 14 (Commitments and Devotion roundtable) and October 17 (book event on Meritocratic Democracy).
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fromWarpweftandway
2 weeks ago

Hybrid Workshop: Friendship in Chinese Thought

A hybrid workshop at Lanzhou University and via Zoom examines theories, debates, and comparative perspectives on friendship within the Chinese intellectual and Confucian traditions.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Ant Flight and the Ascent to Truth

Education should instill a deep dedication to truth rather than merely promote economic productivity or enforce ideological conformity.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

How to Use Regret Instead of Wallowing in It

Regret results from free will and can be instructive when briefly felt, helping learn about oneself and reconcile past choices with present growth.
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fromAeon
1 week ago

Harold Rosenberg exhorted artists to take action and resist cliche | Aeon Essays

Institutional bureaucracies, market seductions, and ideology block truth and authentic action; connecting aesthetics, judgment, and public action can restore genuine political engagement.
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fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

The new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will inherit a global faith far more diverse than many realize

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints faces mourning and leadership change amid global growth and persistent misconceptions of being predominantly Utah-based and white.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

The Ivory Tower We Do Not See: On Science, Politics, and Philosophy

Philosophy of science has shifted from focusing solely on theories to examining scientific practice, experiments, data, and the science-society relationship, questioning the old social contract.
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fromRMNB
1 week ago

Spencer Carbery takes reading inspiration from outside of sports: 'I'm more of a business book person'

Spencer Carbery favors business and leadership books—especially Ryan Holiday's stoic works like The Obstacle Is the Way—to inform coaching and resilience in hockey.
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fromApaonline
1 week ago

Longtermism and its Limits

Future people vastly outnumber the living, so minimizing existential risk for future generations should take priority and may outweigh current-generation interests.
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fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

From Synthetic Data to the Reshaping of Approaches to Representation

Synthetic data and datasets fundamentally shape AI design and outputs, raising ethical, social, and intellectual property concerns requiring careful governance.
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fromAeon
2 weeks ago

History's shaming fascination for the so-called 'idiot savant' | Aeon Essays

Some individuals with profound developmental impairments can possess extraordinary, isolated talents—savant abilities—frequently linked to autism and neurodivergence.
fromAeon
2 weeks ago

In an act of resistance, Elahe forgoes a hijab at a family party | Aeon Videos

In her critically acclaimed short documentary A Move, the London-based director Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown of Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents relocate for the first time in four decades. Esmaili's husband, the Iranian documentary producer Hossein Behboudi Rad, captures the trip as moments of familial tenderness and friction unfold. Inspired by Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement, which was sparked by the death
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fromPhilosophynow
2 weeks ago

News: October/November 2025

Mazviita Chirimuuta won the 2025 Lakatos Award for a book on simplifying neuroscience; research suggests large language models could support philosophical counselling access.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Want to Prepare for the Future?

What might this be? Well, I don't have a complete answer. But I am convinced that the foundation is developing the ability to live with intention. Intention is nothing other than the ability to make free and conscious choices, and when we are able to do this consistently, we become the authors of our own stories, protagonists who co-create the world rather than being determined by it.
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fromPhilosophynow
2 weeks ago

Philosophers on Chocolate

Pop songs are usually about variations on the theme of love; tracks like Rose Royce's 1976 hit 'Car Wash' are the exception. Philosophers, likewise, tend to have a narrow focus on epistemology, metaphysics and trifles like the meaning of life. But occasionally great minds stray from their turf and write about other matters, for example buildings (Martin Heidegger), food (Hobbes), tomato juice (Robert Nozick), and the weather (Lucretius and Aristotle).
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fromTheoldguybicycleblog
2 weeks ago

The Stoic Cyclist: Lessons from the Road and the Ancients

Long-distance cycling cultivates Stoic habits: accept discomfort, control reactions, and pursue clarity through disciplined endurance.
fromPhilosophynow
2 weeks ago

What My Sister Taught Me About Humanity

The comment caused controversy, with many calling it upsetting and insensitive. What his comment also did, though, was get me to think about my own experiences with disability from a philosophical perspective. I am not disabled myself, and I specialise in Comparative Philosophy, not Philosophy of Disability. What experience of disability, then, do I have? It is rather, the experience I had with someone else that explains why I feel that I have a genuine stake in this debate.
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