Revitalizing the Structural Disdain for Old Age
Explore the philosophical reflections on old age, wisdom, and the marginalization of the elderly in modern society. Drawing from Plato, Aristotle, Byung-Chul Han, and Zygmunt Bauman...…
The Smile
The human being is the species that evolved the smile precisely to avoid using weapons.…
What Philosophy Says About Hospitality (and How Literature Tells It)
If, in literature, we find the reflection of hospitality, I propose the notion of literature as a hospitable place.…
Ancient scroll reveals new story of Plato’s death – here’s why you should be suspicious of it
There are reasons to be suspicious. The death of ancient philosophers was meant to reflect their lives and teachings. If not, posterity was quite happy to invent an appropriate deathbed scene…
In Memoriam: Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
Professor Emeritus at Tufts University, Dennett's intellectual journey was marked by his relentless pursuit of understanding human consciousness and cognition.…
In a time of information overload, enigmatic philosopher Byung-Chul Han seeks the re-enchantment of the world
Byung-Chul Han is the enigmatic philosopher and author of The Burnout Society and Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power.…
This philosophical theory can help you stop taking criticism personally
Receiving criticism in the workplace, whether on written reports and projects, presentations or performance reviews, can make us doubt ourselves.…
The Philosophical Misdiagnosis of AI by Yuval Noah Harari
To engage constructively with AI, we must shift the discourse from a simplistic dichotomy of AI as either savior or destructor to a more complex examination of how it amplifies, extends, or…
The Turin Horse, Nietzsche, and Madness
Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse is a meticulous and desolate exploration of life in its most raw and essential state. Through the lens of this sad and philosophical film, we can consider…
What inner speech is, and why philosophy is waking up to it
Daniel Gregory, Universitat de Barcelona It is quite rare for philosophers to start investigating a new area, and a lot of the questions they explore have been around since ancient times. However,…