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Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.
Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners and bird sculptors certainly make it seem plausible.
Patients and families need to know how these extraordinary treatments might change how they feel about themselves and the world.
René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers have pondered this for centuries.
American Vice-President JD Vance’s comments about Greta Thunberg’s ‘scolding’ points to a long history of people seeing scolding as one of the worst things we can do.
The technology is always on call and is quite competent. But it lacks the contemplation and attention to detail that yield great works of art.
Among the big names investing big bucks to prolong their lives are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison.
Ne Zha 2: The Sea’s Fury has entered the top 10 highest grossing films of all time. It’s also China’s highest-grossing film to-date.
We often assume that having more ‘good things’ than others means being more valuable as a person. But behind this there are a host of hidden assumptions
According to Plato, love’s aim is not to complete us, but to inspire us to grow and become the best human being we can be.
Children are open and curious – and this makes them natural philosophers. There are 3 simple ways to step through a philosophical discussion.
A good deal of my own sense of value does not come from thinking nice thoughts about myself. It stems instead from being loved by my wife.
Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.
For most animals, unlike humans, cars offer threats rather than benefits.
One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our age of digital surveillance.
None of us act in isolation – and our choices have more influence than we think.
Social media can never capture the intimacy of being with someone else, which means reliance on it will always leave a sense of lingering isolation.
We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.
Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at it.
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