My friend, the man who tried to kill Hitler
The would-be assassin Axel von dem Bussche was subject to the same pressures of guilt and shame that condition all…
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China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes”
The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx’s Communist Manifesto speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.
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Can you really do more than what duty requires?
Accepting low moral standards that we can easily exceed has caused a great deal of suffering throughout history.
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Why public policy shouldn’t be guided by master numbers
GDP, the Wellby and other indicators may tell us something about societal well-being, but they aren't substitutes for political decision-making.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Graham Caveney, Giles Tremlett, Charlotte Van den Broeck and Chitra Ramaswamy
On Agoraphobia by Caveney, España: A Brief History of Spain by Tremlett, Bold Ventures by Van den Broeck and Homelands:…
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Why Stoicism isn’t just about you
It is often seen as an individualistic philosophy but its techniques are really about pursuing the common good.
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Philosophy’s gentle giant
Why Joseph Raz was one of the most important theorists of our age.
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The philosophical case for not wearing make-up
Cambridge academic Clare Chambers explains why we need to get more comfortable in our own, unmodified skin.
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Should consuming revenge porn be a criminal offence?
Without an audience, revenge porn doesn't work. Those who view these images need to understand they are participants in the…
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Putin’s tyranny has deeper roots than his warped psychology
Putin’s grotesque take on the unimportance of the individual in Russian philosophy means he is willing to see many of…
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Morality after the Bomb
How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch transformed philosophy for a postwar world.
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Is reality a hallucination? The neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks so
After decades of research into the mysteries of consciousness, the British academic has reached a radical conclusion – by way…
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Why falsehoods on Twitter spread faster than truth
Since the platform is perfectly designed for what Heidegger called "idle talk", it's no surprise that untruths proliferate there.
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Living in an immaterial world
The metaverse promises infinite new realms just as tangible as the one we will leave behind.
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What Hitchcock’s Vertigo teaches us about love
The film's twin love stories contrast two ways of understanding what tethers us to someone: personal qualities and shared history.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: a mind on fire
A century after its publication, the philosopher’s Tractatus remains as radical as ever.
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Steven Pinker and the problem with rationality
The popular psychology professor makes the case for reason. But the lure of dogma is hard to resist.
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The fall of the intellectual
Where have all the great thinkers gone?
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The ghost at the atheist feast: was Nietzsche right about religion?
John Gray reviews “The Age of Nothing” by Peter Watson and “Culture and the Death of God” by Terry Eagleton.
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