Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
Philosophers of art have, at times, entertained quite seriously the claim that art can come to an end.
In the ‘big tent’ philosophy of free speech, the more views, the better. But how does that hold up in practice?
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Intellectual humility doesn’t mean anyone can change your mind, a philosopher writes – but it might mean learning from the ‘other side’ in surprising ways.
People who hold higher levels of hope will be less likely to experience symptoms of depression. Shared hopes are also important for expectations of national and international futures.
Sapolsky summarises the latest scientific research relevant to determinism: the idea that we’re causally ‘determined’ to act as we do and couldn’t possibly act any other way.
Web communities have helped the ancient philosophy of Stoicism find fans in a new generation.
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A new book follows four women philosophers through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, spanning 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, to the thick of the second world war.
A woman at a Holocaust Memorial Centre in Macedonia looks at portraits of Jewish people killed in the Treblinka Nazi concentration camp.
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Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was anything but banal. His case is an apt reminder of how evil agents can deflect accountability, denying victims even the thin consolation of the moral high ground.