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Rediscovering the value of being versus appearance

In short, we are becoming atomized antisocial citizens subjugated by prisons with panopticons that we installed in our lives. The challenge to which critical philosophy invites us is to abandon the voluntary…

«Tras las huellas de Ilyenkov» de Corinna Lotz

Finding Evald Ilyenkov – On the translation of Corinna Lotz’s

With the publication in Spanish of Corinna Lotz’s book on Ilyenkov, Ande publishing house has provided an excellent tool to the Spanish-reading public interested in Marxist philosophy.…

How Can I Be a Better Person? On Virtue Ethics

By Douglas Giles In Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics. This chapter explores a variety of approaches to the question of moral virtue and what it means to be a good person. It…

The Matrix Resurrections: A Philosophical Review

It makes perfect sense that The Matrix Resurrections offers no solution at all. It was never meant to do it. Matrix was never a political plan, but the artistic expression of the…

Immanuel Niethammer: The critical symposia and German philosophy

The greatest deeds of humankind bear the trace of humble beginnings in terms of display. The outset of events never flaunts the aesthetic grandiosity that the books or movies, in their favored…

Eduard Gans and the awakening of the social question

Hegel is one of such paragons that marks a route to many adventurers in the realms of philosophy until today.…

Wise women: 6 ancient female philosophers you should know about

Women also shaped the development of philosophy. Although their writings, by and large do not survive, their verbal teaching made a significant impact on their contemporaries, and their voices echo through the…

Why philosophers say solitude can be helpful

Solitude can enable us to recharge. As Montaigne joked, it allows you to take a step back from ordinary life, the better to leap into it next time.…

Is ‘cultural Marxism’ really taking over universities?

The term “cultural Marxism” moved into the media mainstream around 2016, when psychologist Jordan Peterson was protesting a Canadian bill prohibiting discrimination based on gender. Peterson blamed cultural Marxism for phenomena like…

Answering the biggest question of all

Leibniz thought that the fact that there is something and not nothing requires an explanation. The explanation he gave was that God wanted to create a universe – the best one possible…

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