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Books that best express the essence of Stoicism and how it might be applied to real life, recommended by philosopher Massimo Pigliucci
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On a seemingly daily basis, we see attacks against the intellectual culture of the academic humanities, which, since the 1960s, have opened up spaces for leftists to develop critical theories of all kinds. Open Culture, openculture.com
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At 12:40 am today (Sept. 17), Emerita Quito, one the Philippines's greatest philosophers, finally got her wish. The 88-year old former De La Salle University dean and author of more than 20 books died of respiratory failure in Manila. She was a trailblazing scholar, a prolific writer, and a sought-after lecturer. She was als
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The tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Habermas has given way to slick performers. Is profundity being exchanged for popularity?
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Philosophy raises fundamental questions about the meaning of life and the world around us. The philosophy books out now allow anyone to ponder these issues.
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Nigel Warburton is a freelance philosopher, writer and podcaster. He is best known for his introductory philosophy books and for his podcast series, Philosophy Bites. Featuring short interviews with the world's best philosophers on bite-size topics, the podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times to date. His latest book is A Little History of Philosophy.
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Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. I spoke with Dr. Grant about philosophy's
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Full of insights and further reading
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"The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of the same boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every
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Hannah Arendt and the kinds of friendship. (Hannah Arendt’s Female Friends | http://t.co/3nDFPRnZa2 On my to read list!)
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Margaret Cavendish’s brilliant writing was largely neglected in the 1600s, but it’s more relevant than ever. Here’s where to start with her work.
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The experience of grief is a near-universal human experience. But philosophers have held it at arm’s length.
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The spirit of this centuries-old philosophy has been hijacked. It’s time to get back to its original meaning, says Roman Krznaric
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Roman Krznaric is an Australian philosopher and the author of international bestseller Empathy: a Handbook for Revolution. He is a founder of the Empathy Museum. Visit his online Empathy Library here. His latest book is Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day
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Montaigne makes learning look good. The pleasure and the point of the essays is less in any insight than in the abundance and lucidity of insight, less in any story than in the movement of the mind between one story and another, from antiquity to the present, from this world to the antipodes. The essays offer an image of a mind darting comfortably out from the center of its own experience, experience both lived and acquired through books, with equal access to near and far, distant and present, in its search for self-knowledge and equilibrium.
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A wonderful, thoughtful and insightful essay by the always excellent writer Phyllis Rose. Among her outstanding works are biographies of Virginia Woolf (Woman of Letters) and Josephine Baker (Jazz Cleopatra), her essay collection on women writers and their works (Writing of Women: Essays in a Renaissance), and her reflections on Proust's serial novel (The Year of Reading Proust).
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Existentialist philosophy isn't about bringing despair and angst into our lives, it's about discovering our inner freedom.
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Sarah Bakewell is the author of At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails, and How To Live or, A Life of Montaigne, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2011, and the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction in the UK.
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Sandy Grant urges educators to support students’ rejection of prejudice – and call out language that defends the indefensible
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Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning Metapsychology The French writer, Albert Camus was 'a moralist who insisted that while the world is absurd and allows for no hope, we are not condemned to despair.' Like this, the historian Robert Zaretsky...
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