Thinking
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Do you really need a monstrous upbringing to make monsters?
Be more like Goldilocks.
If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
It’s time to bring “friendship love” back.
Music is part of the human experience, which is why some philosophers have written about it. Some had wacky ideas.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
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A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
The Shirky Principle states that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
“In order to seek truth,” Rene Descartes once wrote, “it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
We know that everything changes, but we long for something more permanent.
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
I think, therefore I am (rich).