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Humans arent special and why it matters

Humans aren't special, and why it matters

Anthropocentrism is a violent philosophy

Timothy Morton
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Aim at decency not sainthood

The moral price tag of decency

Why 1% Might Be Enough

Michael Plant
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Alasdair MacIntyre: The man who declared morality a fiction

The return to virtue

Omari Edwards
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Relationships are more important than pleasure

Relationships are more important than pleasure

Stoicism isn't what you think it is

Massimo Pigliucci
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Morality must always come before the law

The law is often morally wrong

Michael Huemer
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All rebels risk being tyrants

Camus vs Fanon

Pedro Tabensky
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Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil?

The answer depends on what you think of politics.

Robin Douglass
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Albert Camus Coffee or Suicide

Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

The Stoics and Existentialists agree on the answer

Skye C. Cleary
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A Prayer For Atheists

Prayer for Atheists

Prayer helps even if you don't believe in God

William Irwin
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Memory, Identity, and Responsibility

Need we be punished for crimes we can't remember?

Helen Beebee
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Schopenhauer vs Nietzsche: The meaning of suffering

The answer depends on how you respond to tragedy

Joshua Foa Dienstag
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Kierkegaard On Escaping the Cult of Busyness

Busyness is the sign of a deeply unhappy person.

Karl Aho
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Why the 10th commandment about jealousy is wrong

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JD Vance vs the Pope: The myth of moral absolutes

We evolved to have contradictory moral instincts

Steven D. Hales
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Forget facts and values, everything is a judgement

Hume and why the fact-value distinction is a disaster

Robert Ellis
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Everything doesn't happen for a reason

The myth of modern stoicism

Tracy Llanera
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Beyond the limits of reason

An interview with Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley
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What animal rights advocates get wrong

Animal rights doesn't need anti-speciesism

Sophie Grace Chappell
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Freud was wrong, psychoanalysis is a moral pursuit

The surprising connection between psychoanalysis and ethics

Edward Harcourt
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6 Philosophers on the Contradictions of Christmas

Nietzsche, Marx, and more on how to enjoy Christmas

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Both moral realism and relativism are wrong

Stripping morality of metaphysics

Melis Erdur
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The hidden reality discovered through ritual

Rituals in the age of atheism

Michael L. Raposa
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Moving past morality

The moral moment and what comes next

Joel Marks
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Science and religion are not the answer to life

Nietzsche, meaning, and eternity

Babette Babich
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