Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine!
2. April 2025 3764 views
A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas.
2. April 2025 3764 views
A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas.
1. January 2025 2324 views
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“.
19. October 2024 3303 views
Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible.
28. May 2024 3989 views
You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling?
28. February 2024 37630 views
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life:
1. November 2023 26883 views
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“
2. May 2023 12926 views
How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds.
1. October 2022 13934 views
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson’s ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist.
5. December 2021 7989 views
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful.
28. September 2021 23240 views
This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes.
29. August 2021 21347 views
This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius.
2. December 2019 10264 views
Introduction to the Yijing or “book of change”, China’s oldest philosophical book.
14. August 2019 7969 views
This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
23. March 2017 72407 views
In 1942 Albert Camus wrote a book called “The Myth of Sisyphus”. It is about the one truly important philosophical problem: Given the circumstances of our existence, shouldn’t we just kill ourselves? This is his answer: