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Following your passion can be a dangerous mistake

Following your passion can be a dangerous mistake

Beyond Western individualism

Paul A. O'Keefe
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Heidegger, poetry and the cure for technology

Heidegger, poetry and the cure for technology

Finding stillness in a world of turmoil

Mathilde Nielsen
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Plato vs The Algorithm: Beauty is the path to virtue

Plato vs The Algorithm: Beauty is the path to virtue

What Plato got right about beauty

Panos Paris
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Don't blame AI for its mistakes

Don't blame AI for its mistakes

AI cannot be morally responsible. So who is?

Jan H. Wasserziehr
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The impossible dream of a world independent of experience

The impossible dream of a world independent of experience

A review of Graham Harman's Waves and Stones

Michael Kuznets
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The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self

The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self

The philosophy behind social media and the beauty industry

Ellen Atlanta
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A smiling man with glasses adjusts them, showcasing a professional look with a slight smirk against a neutral background.

The Point of Art

Art has always been a part of human nature. Why?

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Silence Reigns

Penny Rimbaud speaks on music, love, and meaning.

Penny Rimbaud
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A painter depicts a large bird on canvas while seated near an easel, with an egg resting on a table beside him.

Art is Not Reality

An extract from Janne Teller's novel, Come.

Janne Teller
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Michelangelo's

The Emperor’s New God

Can art replace religion and teach us how to live?

Julian Spalding
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A preserved shark in a glass tank, surrounded by green-tinted liquid, showcasing contemporary art practices.

The Emperor's New Art

Why are money and art so closely linked?

Mel Evans
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Beeple and nothingness

The ontology of NFT Art

Anthony Cross
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Art & AestheticsArrow Head

Technology to fashion originality is a myth3.lxp

Technology to fashion, originality is a myth

There is no such thing as novelty

Narain D. Batra
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Aristotle, reality TV, and why fiction reveals more than fact

Fiction uncovers something deeper than truth

Karen Simecek
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Dostoevsky, nihilism, and the fight for human nature

Russian nihilism on trial

Gary Saul Morson
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Thomas Mann and the fall of the West

Mann's masterpiece predicted liberalism's crisis

Oliver Adelson
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Pinker vs Nietzsche: Is music the basis of language?

Language is born out of music

Kathleen Higgins
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Narrative & RealityArrow Head

How Mahlers symphonies reclaimed Nietzsche from the far right

How Mahler's symphonies reclaim Nietzsche from the far right

A philosophy better expressed through music

Leah Batstone
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Experience moves beyond the self and beyond linear time

The philosophy of Clarice Lispector

Michael Marder
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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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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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Relationships & SexualityArrow Head

ai affairs and the end of romance

AI, intimacy, and the end of love

It’s not love, it’s extraction

Nolen Gertz
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Love is not a virtue

What bell hooks got wrong about love and healing

Omari Edwards
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Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Sex needs rescuing from scientific imperialism

Paul Giladi
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What dating apps get wrong about your love life

The online dating dilemma

Andrés Abeliuk
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The limits of consent

Power, sex, and agency

Melissa Rees
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Society & CultureArrow Head

post truth we need truth seeking image of an eye taking in information

In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important than ever

Knowing is a moral act

Jason Baehr
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Truth is dead, and that's a good thing

The democratic dream of social media is still alive and kicking

Steve Fuller
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The internet is broken, here's how to fix it

The real internet revolution starts now

Maurizio Ferraris
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The psychedelic origins, and future, of Western thought

The psychedelic genealogy of morals

Ricky Williamson
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Cultural memory should not keep us stuck in the past

On the urge for public memorialization

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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