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  • A human history of intelligence without kindness - A cautionary analogy for the advent of AI

    A human history of intelligence without kindness - A cautionary analogy for the advent of AI
    Sep 11 2025

    We've set a bleak precedent for what's to come.

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    10 min
  • Cicero and Simone de Beauvoir on Old Age - The Self, the Other and growing old authentically!

    Cicero and Simone de Beauvoir on Old Age - The Self, the Other and growing old authentically!
    Sep 8 2025

    Cicero and Simone de Beauvoir offer us two very different visions of growing old and the philosophy of aging!
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    21 min
  • Eden, Adam and Eve: Thank God for the Fall! - Why paradise is deeply problematic!

    Eden, Adam and Eve: Thank God for the Fall! - Why paradise is deeply problematic!
    Aug 31 2025

    Living an Edenic existence fails to give us what we truly need and want: namely, responsibility, love and meaning!

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    14 min
  • Byung-Chul Han - The Transparency Society

    Byung-Chul Han - The Transparency Society
    Aug 27 2025

    According to Han, we live in a culture of constant self-exposure and exhibition. And, despite what we think, it makes us flat, banal and powerless!

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    12 min
  • To our Children

    To our Children
    Aug 23 2025

    We walk in the shadows we cast. Let's be the architects of a better future.

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    7 min
  • Samuel Beckett - "I can't go on. I'll go on."

    Samuel Beckett - "I can't go on. I'll go on."
    Aug 22 2025

    This is the famous last line in one of Beckett's novels. But it's not just a last line, it's a credo for human existence!

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    14 min
  • Reclaiming the power of Melancholy!

    Reclaiming the power of Melancholy!
    Aug 17 2025

    We treat melancholy as a pathology, something to be cured or eradicated. But we've lost sight of it's real value!

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    11 min
  • Alexander Nehamas - Platonic Irony!

    Alexander Nehamas - Platonic Irony!
    Aug 17 2025

    Socrates doesn't just undermine his interlocutors, Plato undermines us! Or so argues the contemporary philosopher Alexander Nehamas!

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    14 min