philosophy
Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.
Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.
“We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.”
Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Give yourself (and others) a break.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.
Hinduism emphasizes the journey, whichever path that takes. And it holds us responsible for our own self-improvement.
The Athenian rich paid their taxes because they craved the social success of being perceived as “useful.”
Denmark’s 10 Jante Laws are grim, and yet they bring so much happiness.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Climate activists’ brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.