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Žižek: "God is stupid, indifferent, and evil"

What is true materialism

Slavoj Žižek
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The biggest questions in life cannot be answered

Whereof one cannot answer, one must remain silent

Mauricio Suárez
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Imagination and metaphor are central to ethics

Metaphor is central to reality

Ning Yu
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Avoiding World War Three

Globalization and its discontents: A wake up call

Lou Marinoff
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The mystical is culturally relative

The social conditions behind transcendance

Steven T. Katz
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Why attention matters for morality

Lessons from Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch

Elisa Magrì
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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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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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Prayer for Atheists

Prayer helps even if you don't believe in God

William Irwin
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John Locke - Crimes you can't remember

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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The weaponisation of morality

Nietzsche's take on the U.S. College Presidents scandal

Charlie Barnett
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Dopamine undermines the joy of the everyday

Reward is dangerous

Anna Lembke
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We need negative emotions for a good life

Unpacking a double standard

Krista Thomason
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The reality of the mystical experience

Beyond the conscious

Ricky Williamson
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Peter Singer's universal ethics under fire

The pitfalls of the golden rule

Charlie Barnett
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To be human is to be animal

The case for animalism

Eric T. Olson
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The dark side of empathy

Tracy Brower
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The afterlife without God

The great beyond in a secular age

Paul Bickley
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Human consciousness: a tragic misstep

Cosmic nihilism, existential joy

Sam Woolfe
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Nietzsche and the perils of denying your self

Selflessness as weakness

Guy Elgat
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How effective altruism lost the plot

Why Longtermism is not the solution

James W. Lenman
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Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live

How to deny our metaphysical self

Robert Wicks
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