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shakespeare vs wittgenstein

Shakespeare vs Wittgenstein: the fight for meaning

Lost in tragedy

William Day
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How to maintain your hope in humanity

I'm not angry at you humanity, I'm just disappointed

Ian James Kidd
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Change your self, change your friends

Friendships without the pressure

Mark Phelan
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New Year's resolutions and the myth of self-control

Self-control is strategy, not willpower

Matthew C. Haug
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History is never true, but it can be justified

How historians can do without truth

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
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The ineffability of meaning

Why you can't paraphrase a poem

Stefan Valdemar Snævarr
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Mary Beard Nassim Taleb Twitter row

Beard vs Taleb: Scientism and Historical Inquiry

Twitter rows and the dangers of scientism

Massimo Pigliucci
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Camus on the Absurd and Love

Albert Camus on love and the absurd

Absurdity may be king, but love saves us from it

Jamie Lombardi
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Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

Not just a lightshow

Ricky Williamson
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Harari and Žižek warn of a post-nature world

The two thinkers share a stage at HowTheLightGetsIn

Alexis Papazoglou
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Against History: A Lesson from Simone Weil

Weil said progress is a myth. Should we listen?

Palle Yourgrau
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Kate Kirkpatrick Authentic Love Simone de Beauvoir

What is authentic love? Simone de Beauvoir's View

Authentic love requires independence and equality.

Kate Kirkpatrick
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Art & AestheticsArrow Head

shakespeare vs wittgenstein

Shakespeare vs Wittgenstein: the fight for meaning

Lost in tragedy

William Day
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The ineffability of meaning

Why you can't paraphrase a poem

Stefan Valdemar Snævarr
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Baldwin vs. Nietzsche: How to overcome tragedy

Escaping suffering and representation

Phillip E. Mitchell
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Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy: The Limits of Language

Ineffability and incarnation

John Givens
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Margaret Atwood: A sword is mightier than the pen

"Artists have no actual power"

Margaret Atwood
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Narrative & RealityArrow Head

History is never true but it can approach reality2

History is never true, but it can be justified

How historians can do without truth

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
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Philosophy must embrace poetry

How poetry captures the difficulty of reality

John Gibson
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Santa and the truth about lying

The trial of St Nick

Michael Kuznets
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Casting light on gender in Dark Souls

Women's corruption and bondage

Benjamin Carpenter
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The right brain is essential to creativity

Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman

Iain McGilchrist
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Change your self, change your friends

Friendships without the pressure

Mark Phelan
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Philosophy is an erotic endeavor

What classical philosophy can teach us about love

Sam Woodward
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The unexpected intimacy of sex work

We are trapped in our stories of love

Adelyn Moore
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Love is close to madness

Lacan and Deleuze on the nature of love

Sinan Richards
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The Sexuality of Asexuality

An interview with Yasmin Benoit

Yasmin Benoit
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Society & CultureArrow Head

dont give up on humanity 3

How to maintain your hope in humanity

I'm not angry at you humanity, I'm just disappointed

Ian James Kidd
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New Year's resolutions and the myth of self-control

Self-control is strategy, not willpower

Matthew C. Haug
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The death and rebirth of attention

The hidden costs of collective attention

Carolyn Dicey Jennings
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After the death of the grand narrative

How to fill the void of the postmodern age

Matt McManus
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The fallibility of psychedelic insight

How psychedelics increase openness to reality

Henry Straughan
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