You have views about what makes a life happy and successful. You have, in short, a philosophy. Your philosophy affects how you live and how you evaluate people's lives, including your own. It's not ...
Science and philosophy have a long, complicated history. Both are human endeavors aimed at articulating the nature of the world. But where the line between them lies depends a lot on perspective and ...
The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of more recent philosophy, is that concerning the relation of thinking and being. From the very early times when men, still completely ignorant ...
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE LET’S start with ...
The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration and enlightened thinking, but it has also aroused ...
Be “a man in the street and a Jew in the home”: a common piece of advice that liberal Jews often gave their co-religionists in the 19th century. If Jewishness was kept invisible and private, they ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Materialism and technology is leading to worse mental health and the splintering of society, but with attention and effort people ...