The word ‘meekness’ might seem old-fashioned – and not a positive trait. But understanding its original meaning can identify an important virtue.
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Seeing someone charitably requires a balancing act between taking them seriously and trying to see the good in them.
Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.
Is gardening a form of resistance in a world demanding endless efficiency and self-optimisation?
Love can be exposing but is it worth it to find someone? Sartre thought so.
For Aristotle, the true form of love wasn’t about intense passion or grand gestures on one day of the year.
Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which we’re all the characters.
If de-extinction tech can bring back species, are people more comfortable with them going extinct? A new study tests this idea.
Philosophers from Aristotle to Nietzsche have debated whether being virtuous only helps others, or if it benefits the virtuous person, too.
While AI can streamline certain parts of the scientific process, a philosopher argues that it cannot replace human expertise and collaboration.
Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.
In practice, most of our experiences of shared realities are not involved in truth. Think of myths, neighbourly feeling, or the sense of community.
Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of wealth could harm democracies.
Eternity is not truly about a love that could last forever. It is about the way that love, real ordinary love, involves more than happiness.
Can one person change the world? At a time of pessimism and populism, a new book suggests how we can achieve social change.
One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as well read and inquisitive as he was.
Parents and policymakers want job security for graduates, but in the AI and automation era, careers may depend as much on curiosity and initiative as on credentials.
The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.
Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality.
Tia Billinger’s viral stunt shows us the price women pay for power and influence.
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