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Philosophy
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Stoicism for the Distracted Mind
The Stoics would have recognised our condition immediately, even if the particulars would have astonished them. They lived in cities full of noise, rumour, and spectacle, surrounded by things clamouring for their.
The Weight of Choice: An Introduction to Existentialism
There is a particular kind of vertigo that arrives, usually uninvited, in an ordinary moment — washing a dish, waiting for a train — when it occurs to you that no one.
Ethics Without Certainty: Living Well Among Competing Goods
Most of us want ethics to behave like arithmetic: feed in the situation, apply the rule, receive the answer, act with a clear conscience. The longing is understandable. Moral life is exhausting.
What Do We Actually Know? A Short Tour of Epistemology
Ask someone how they know what they claim to know, and watch how quickly the ground softens. We move through the day confident in a thousand things — that the sun will.
On Meaning: Why the Question Won’t Leave Us Alone
There is a question that no one quite escapes, however busy or content they manage to stay. It surfaces in the small hours, in grief, sometimes oddly in the middle of happiness:.