Pessimism, as explored by the philosopher Schopenhauer, offers tools to come to terms with the idea that refusing to relentlessly pursue happiness is perhaps the most reasonable attitude.
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Stoicism can easily be misread as pessimistic because of its relentless focus on mortality and fragility. But its core message – contained in songs spanning generations – is profoundly empowering.
Does true love require self-sacrifice, as depicted in Thor: Love and Thunder? Plato’s Symposium, the most famous ancient dialogue on love, offers many perspectives.
Water companies are presenting people with an ethical dilemma.
What would moralists and realists say about the UK’s recent political turmoil?
Irony is linked to the ability to say one thing while thinking another – which means it’s also intrinsic to being human. What does new research into artificial intelligence and irony reveal?
Humanity’s remarkable powers of comprehension can be aggrandising, but ultimately they demand a sense of humility.
Fanon left a remarkable imprint, his views influencing many in the field of mental illness as well as pan-Africanist and anti-colonialism thinkers.
The answer could lie in evolution.
Marx’s thought was groundbreaking. His primary interest wasn’t simply capitalism. It was human existence and our potential.
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s brilliant early work has had a lasting influence on philosophy, though almost no one has agreed with his conclusions – not even Wittgenstein himself.
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
The word ‘evil’ sends a clear message – or does it? There are deep tensions in what the word means, and what it can accomplish.
There’s a perfectly good alternative to dark matter, but most scientists aren’t keen on the idea.
As strategies go, whataboutism is more attack than debate. Using it isn’t about reasoned argument but winning a fight, no matter the cost to truth.
Children are taught to value the lives of other species less, according to a new study.
Julian Barnes’ Elizabeth Finch is an unrequited love story and a philosophical novel that asks how we understand ourselves and others.
Cutting-edge theories of physics suggest time may not be real – but even if they’re right, life can still go on as usual.
Apple TV’s Severance imagines what would happen to our sense of self if we could completely separate our work and home lives.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Associate Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Pretoria
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, author of The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad (2020), Durham University
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
