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48 posts are tagged #philosophy; the most recent was published on 2026-08-02.
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Tool or Counterpart — What Can Still Be Said While Leaving the Consciousness Question Open
The first question people reach for in front of AI is "does this thing have consciousness." It is the hardest question, and probably not the most useful one. This piece sets that question down beside us without closing i
2026-08-02 · 13 min read #humanities#ai#philosophy#cognition#technologyThe Art of Loving Failure — Amor Fati and the Psychology of Resilience
Nietzsche's amor fati sounds like a heavy demand — affirm your fate, failures included — but through the lens of psychology it turns out to be a surprisingly practical skill. Drawing on resilience research, growth mindse
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#philosophy#resilience#stoicism#growthJordan Peterson's Major Books: A Thoughtful Reader's Guide
Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and a genuinely polarizing public figure. This guide sets the political controversy aside and focuses on the actual content of his three major books — 12 Rules for Life (2018),
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #books#self-improvement#psychology#jordan-peterson#philosophyComputation as a Universal Concept — What Holds Up and What Is Overclaimed
A short course titled 'Computation as a universal and fundamental concept,' taught by Tim Roughgarden, has been trending. Read closely, it is careful computer-science theory: the halting problem, algorithmic efficiency,
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #computer-science#computation#complexity#theory#philosophyPractical Stoicism: Applying an Ancient Philosophy to Modern Life
Stoicism began in Athens around 300 BCE, yet its core tools fit today's anxieties surprisingly well. Grounded in the actual texts of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, this post lays out practices you can use: the d
2026-07-11 · 8 min read #philosophy#stoicism#self-improvement#life-adviceThe Art of War — A Strategy Classic That Survived 2500 Years ♪ Listenable
How did The Art of War, written in barely six thousand characters, survive 2500 years to remain a textbook for business and negotiation? Through winning without fighting, knowing self and enemy, and the wisdom of the voi
2026-07-02 · 28 min read #strategy#sun-tzu#classics#philosophy#leadershipThe Prince — Was Machiavelli Really a Devil? ♪ Listenable
For 500 years The Prince has swung between banned book and required reading. Was Machiavelli truly a demon of cunning statecraft? Through its historical context, core arguments, misreadings, and reappraisals, we revisit
2026-07-02 · 36 min read #philosophy#politics#machiavelli#classics#powerThe Republic — The Eternal Question of What Justice Is ♪ Listenable
What is justice? The question Plato posed 2400 years ago still holds us. Through the allegory of the cave, the theory of forms, the tripartite soul, and the rule of philosophers, we read The Republic, the starting point
2026-07-02 · 33 min read #philosophy#plato#politics#classics#justiceLaozi and Zhuangzi — The Paradoxical Wisdom of Wu-Wei ♪ Listenable
We unpack the core Taoist ideas of the Tao, wu-wei, and ziran through the water analogy and Zhuangzi parables, and ask what letting go of control means for people worn down by burnout and the obsession with productivity.
2026-06-21 · 42 min read #philosophy#taoism#wu-wei#zhuangzi#laoziWhat Is Justice — Rawls and Nozick ♪ Listenable
If you had to design a society from behind a veil of ignorance, which principles would you choose? John Rawls and Robert Nozick gave opposite answers about justice. Following the old tension between equality and liberty,
2026-06-21 · 61 min read #justice#philosophy#rawls#nozick#ethicsThe Trolley Problem — Would You Sacrifice One to Save Five?
A runaway trolley is hurtling toward five people, and your hand rests on a lever. This deceptively simple scenario pulls open the deepest debates in moral philosophy. We trace its many variations, the neuroscience of mor
2026-06-21 · 11 min read #culture#philosophy#ethics#thought-experiment#utilitarianismWittgenstein — Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Must Be Silent ♪ Listenable
One philosopher overturned his own philosophy twice across a single lifetime. Following the early picture theory and the later language games, we explore his insights into meaning and silence. We then carefully consider
2026-06-21 · 42 min read #wittgenstein#philosophy#language#logic#meaningStoicism — How a 2000-Year-Old Philosophy Answers Modern Life ♪ Listenable
Through the dichotomy of control, negative visualization, and three Stoic philosophers, we explore how a philosophy born 2000 years ago meets the anxieties of today. We trace its link to modern cognitive behavioral thera
2026-06-21 · 40 min read #philosophy#stoicism#psychology#history#self-improvementSkepticism — What Can We Actually Know ♪ Listenable
From Descartes evil demon to the brain in a vat and the Gettier problem. We trace the history of skepticism, which asks whether what we believe we know is really knowledge, and explore how healthy doubt differs from cons
2026-06-21 · 34 min read #philosophy#epistemology#skepticism#descartes#knowledgeThe Weirdness of Quantum Mechanics — A World That Betrays Intuition ♪ Listenable
From the double slit to superposition, entanglement, uncertainty, and Schrödinger cat. A friendly tour of the quantum world that endlessly defies our intuition, explained through analogy and thought experiment, with a lo
2026-06-21 · 26 min read #quantum-mechanics#physics#science#philosophy#superpositionOur Obligations to Future Generations — To Those Not Yet Born ♪ Listenable
What do we owe to people who do not yet exist? A balanced look at Parfit non-identity problem, climate and debt, the discount-rate debate, and intergenerational justice, from several competing perspectives.
2026-06-21 · 32 min read #ethics#future-generations#philosophy#climate#justiceThe Philosophy of Happiness — Pleasure or Meaning ♪ Listenable
Is happiness the sum of pleasant moments, or the flourishing of a whole life well lived? From Epicurus's tranquility to Aristotle's eudaimonia and the findings of modern happiness psychology, we explore the ancient quest
2026-06-21 · 30 min read #happiness#philosophy#eudaimonia#hedonism#aristotleThe Tyranny of Merit — Michael Sandel and the Question of Meritocracy ♪ Listenable
Is meritocracy really fair? Starting from Michael Sandel critique of merit, this essay explores the role of luck, the hubris of winners and the humiliation of losers, credentialism, and the common good. It also gives mer
2026-06-21 · 34 min read #meritocracy#philosophy#michael-sandel#justice#cultureIs Lying Always Wrong — Kant and the White Lie ♪ Listenable
Is lying always forbidden, or sometimes permitted? Following Kant absolutism, the consequentialist reply, the white lie, the economics of trust, and cultural differences, we meet thought experiments that unsettle our int
2026-06-21 · 32 min read #ethics#kant#philosophy#morality#honestyCan a War Ever Be Just? A History of Just War Theory ♪ Listenable
Is there any room for ethics in war? From Augustine to modern international law, we trace two thousand years of debate over the just war, weighing the perspectives of just war theory, pacifism, and realism with care.
2026-06-21 · 54 min read #ethics#just-war#philosophy#history#international-law