“Women are capable of education, but they are not made for activities which demand a universal faculty such as the more ...
Happiness The Necessary Ache Tara Daneshmand on regret and the courage to choose. “A mountain begins with the first stone, ...
Happiness Hedonic Treadmills in the Vale of Tears Michael Gracey looks at how philosophers have pursued happiness. Thomas ...
“I have no idea what Aristotle would say.” Peter Singer is perhaps the world’s leading moral philosopher, but he is not ...
Many philosophers, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have been interested in human races as social constructs. If ...
Happiness Ancient Indian Wisdom for a Restless Age Jahnvi Borgohain looks at a variety of approaches to happiness. Across ...
This kind of trade-off appears throughout human life, from career choices to relationships to hobbies. Sometimes we must ...
The painter, poet, and engraver, William Blake (1757-1827) is not usually categorized as a philosopher, but I think otherwise ...
Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...
Fiction Bilbo Theorizes About Wellbeing Eric Comerford overhears Bilbo and Gandalf discussing happiness. After all their ...
Opinion

On Tyranny

Islamic Philosophers On Tyranny AmirAli Maleki looks at tyranny from an Islamic perspective. Do Islamic philosophers allow tyranny, or do they advocate a free and enlightened soci ...
The proper limits of free speech, then, are those that prevent government overreach while promoting a public sphere where citizens can exercise autonomy, pursue truth, and govern themselves with ...