In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question: "What is it like to be a bat?" His point wasn't really ...
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Naval Ravikant critiques hustle culture, emphasizing that happiness shouldn't be tied to achieving desires. He advocates for ...
Oluwole faced a double challenge: a woman in philosophy and an African, confronting both sexism and Eurocentric bias.
Today’s youth cherish “authenticity,” but is it a virtue? According to a report from Ernst & Young, more than 9 in 10 Gen Z respondents indicated that being authentic and true to yourself is extremely ...
The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, ...
Epicurus, the ancient Greek philosopher, reminds us that courage is forged through adversity rather than comfort. His quote, “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday.
After more than seventy years writing and thinking about democracy, capitalism, and the possibility of emancipatory politics, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas died on Saturday, March 14, at age ...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a key Enlightenment figure, questioned societal norms and authority, emphasizing equality and liberty. His quote, 'To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness,' ...
In his 17th century book “Leviathan,” English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” This describes the state of nature of which humans are a part.