Tag: Philosophy
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Loading…A cure for individualism
It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius
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Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
We have found fiction wanting in myriad ways but rarely paused to wonder, or recall, what we once wanted from it.
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How to think about the sublime
An exquisite mix of fear and awe, pleasure and pain, the sublime stretches the imagination and reveals the limits of reason
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The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
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Race, Genes, and IQ
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
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Beyond food and people
Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict, strife and suffering
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The World Is a Prism, Not a Window
An Interview with Zoë Schlanger Pushing the limits of our Western scientific understanding of intelligence, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her latest book, The Light Eaters, and how embracing plant consciousness upends the structures and hierarchies we’ve placed around living beings—ourselves included.
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Humanlike?
Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism