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Michael Cholbi on Grief, Identity Crisis, and What We Learn from Loss
Antinatalism: David Benatar’s Asymmetry Argument for Why it’s Wrong to Have Children
Amor Fati: the Stoics’ and Nietzsche’s Different Takes on Loving Fate
Arne Næss’s Deep Ecology: Reevaluating Our Place in Nature
Susan Wolf on How to Live a Meaningful Life
Simone Weil’s Ethic of Resistance: Resisting Not Just Power, but the Race for Power
Aldous Huxley: Other People’s Lives are Ultimately Unknowable
Should Parenting Require a License?
Ubuntu Philosophy: Wealth Resides in the Health of the Community
Beyond Money: Martha Nussbaum on Living a Flourishing Human Life
Ruth Chang on Making Difficult Life Decisions
Do Neurons Push Thoughts Around? Or Do Thoughts Push Neurons Around?
The Paradox of Choice: Barry Schwartz on Why More is Less
‘Dao’ in Chinese Philosophy: Harmonizing with the Way
Erich Fromm on Why Love is Not About Finding ‘the One’
True Wealth Lies in Friendship: Epicurus and Ho Kepos
Kierkegaard: Life Can Only Be Understood Backwards, But It Must Be Lived Forwards
Plato’s Scala Amoris: the Ladder of Love
If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and There’s No One Around to Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?
Thucydides’s Melian Dialogue: Can International Politics Be Fair?
Nietzsche on Friends Growing Apart
Fyodor Dostoevsky and Olaf Stapledon on True Security
Hannah Arendt: 5 Insights into Totalitarianism
What’s Made the World Wonderful Recently?
Finding Rapture in the Humdrum: Cultivating Wonder for Everyday Life
Nietzsche’s Perspectivism: What Does ‘Objective Truth’ Really Mean?
Catherine of Siena on How Wealth Corrupts Justice
How To Set Better New Year’s Resolutions: Focus On Processes, Not Outcomes
Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness
James Baldwin: Suffering Can Become a Force for Good
The Stoics on What to Do When the World Feels Broken
John Stuart Mill and Daniel Dennett on How to Critique ‘the Other Side’
Laurie Ann Paul on How to Approach Transformative Decisions
Hunter S. Thompson: Don’t Look for Goals, Look for a Way of Life
Do You Recall Asking Philosophical Questions as a Child?
Epicurus on the Arduous Task of Untroubling the Mind
Anicca: Our Collective Way of Life Won’t Exist Soon
Nietzsche On What ‘Finding Yourself’ Actually Means
Albert Camus on Rebelling against Life’s Absurdity
Hannah Arendt on the Human Condition: Productivity Will Replace Meaning
Elizabeth Anderson on the Tyranny of Being Employed
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil
Pantheism: Spinoza and the God that Einstein Believed In
Mono No Aware: Beauty and Impermanence in Japanese Philosophy
John Rawls: How a ‘Veil of Ignorance’ Can Help Us Build a Just Society
Aristotle vs the Stoics: What Does Happiness Require?
5 Existential Problems All Humans Share
The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: the Cure for Suffering
Compatibilism: Philosophy’s Favorite Answer to the Free Will Debate
The Last Time Meditation: a Stoic Tool for Living in the Present
Nietzsche On Why Suffering is Necessary for Greatness
How to Live a Fulfilling Life, According to Philosophy Break Subscribers
Enrich Your Personal Philosophy with these 6 Major Philosophies for Life
Heidegger On Being Authentic in an Inauthentic World
Iris Murdoch on the Morality of Attention, and the Hostile Mother-in-Law
The Apollonian and Dionysian: Nietzsche On Art and the Psyche
The Sublime: Edmund Burke on the Feeling Thunderstorms Give You
Why Nature vs. Nurture is a False Dichotomy: Mary Midgley
Peter Singer On the Life You Can (and Should) Save
What Happens When Machines Become Smarter than People?
Nozick’s Experience Machine: Does it Refute Hedonism?
Authentic Love: Simone de Beauvoir on What Makes a Healthy Relationship
Marcus Aurelius: To Live a Good Life, Practice Kindness
Iris Murdoch: ‘Unselfing’ is Crucial for Living a Good Life
The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number: What Bentham Really Meant
The Porcupine’s Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Wistful Parable On Human Connection
Sartre’s Waiter, ‘Bad Faith’, and the Harms of Inauthenticity
Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society: Our Only Imperative is to Achieve
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: the ‘Copernican Revolution’ of Philosophy
Seneca: To Find Peace, Stop Chasing Unfulfillable Desires
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance Summary (and PDF): Become Your Own Person
I Think Therefore I Am: Descartes’ Cogito Ergo Sum Explained
Mengzi vs. Xunzi On Human Nature: Are We Good or Evil?
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Life, Insanity, and Legacy
Stoicism and Emotion: Don’t Repress Your Feelings, Reframe Them
On Living Meaningfully in a Vast Universe: Robert Nozick
Existence Precedes Essence: What Sartre Really Meant
The Dichotomy of Control: a Stoic Device for a Tranquil Mind
Isaiah Berlin On Why the Pursuit of the Ideal is Dangerous
Confucius: Rituals Grind Our Characters Like Pieces of Jade
The Buddha On Ending Suffering: the Parable of the Poisoned Arrow
Aristotle On the 3 Types of Friendship (and How Each Enriches Life)
Kierkegaard On Finding the Meaning of Life
Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self: Why ‘You’ Do Not Really Exist
The 4 Cardinal Virtues: Stoicism’s Roadmap to the Best Life Possible
Epicureanism Defined: Philosophy is a Form of Therapy
The ‘Golden Mean’: Aristotle’s Guide to Living Excellently
Fear of Black Consciousness: Lewis Gordon Interview
Aristotle On Why Leisure Defines Us More than Work
Life is Hard: Interview with Philosopher Kieran Setiya
Epicurus’s Principal Doctrines: 40 Aphorisms for Living Well
Eternal Recurrence: What Did Nietzsche Really Mean?
David Deutsch On Why It’s False to Say Our Lives Don’t Matter
Übermensch Explained: the Meaning of Nietzsche’s ‘Superman’
Solipsism Definition: Your Mind Is the Only Thing that Exists
Why Children Make Great Philosophers: Interview with Scott Hershovitz
Nietzsche Quotes: 97 of his Cleverest Statements
A Defense of the Unmodified Body: Clare Chambers Interview
God is Dead: Nietzsche’s Most Famous Statement Explained
The Good Life Method: Interview with Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko
Epicurus On Why Death Should Not Concern Us
Metaphysics: What Is It? Why Is It Important Today?
Socratic Method: What Is It and How Can You Use It?
Seneca On Coping with the Shortness of Life
Mind Chat’s Philip Goff and Keith Frankish On Why We Are Conscious
What is Existentialism? 3 Core Principles of Existentialist Philosophy
George Berkeley’s Subjective Idealism: The World Is In Our Minds
John Locke’s Empiricism: Why We Are All Tabula Rasas (Blank Slates)
Why You Should Care About Philosophy: Jonny Thomson Interview
Is the World Around Us ‘Real’?
Why Does Anything Exist?
Socrates and the Socratic Paradox: I Know That I Know Nothing
Why Death is Nothing to Fear: Lucretius and Epicureanism
Thomas Nagel On Why Humor is the Best Response to Life's Absurdity
Kierkegaard On Why Busy People Are Ridiculous
Why ‘Zombies’ Cause Problems for Brain Science and Consciousness
Bertrand Russell On Why Philosophy Matters
What is Consciousness?
Where Do Morals Come From?
How the Languages We Speak Shape Our Realities
Why You Probably Don't Have Free Will
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
Dancing with Nietzsche