Welcome to our monthly newsletter, dear reader, • Our first library novelty is an article by Oludamini Ogunnaike, “The Logic of the Birds”, on the metaphysics of poetic language and thus on the essential value of poetry, with a wealth of examples drawn from traditions all over the world. Poetry makes tangible and existentially realizable| The Matheson Trust
Robert Tolan writes on René Guénon and why living in the era of Technology requires less thinking: A response to Dark Enlightenment's philosopher Nick Land. L'articolo Maximizing for Mystery proviene da IM—1776.| IM—1776
Why factor investing often fails in practice — and how causal reasoning helps quant models perform in the real world. The post The Factor Mirage: How Quant Models Go Wrong appeared first on CFA Institute Enterprising Investor.| CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
AI’s CFA exam success underscores finance’s next frontier: mastering technology while keeping human judgment at the core. The post AI Can Pass the CFA® Exam, But It Cannot Replace Analysts appeared first on CFA Institute Enterprising Investor.| CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
Longevity is reshaping investment careers and workplaces, challenging firms to manage five generations and sustain learning, productivity, and well-being.| CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
There are countless schools of philosophical thoughts which discuss how we experience life. Some will make us question the world around us.| Learning Mind
Hassan reads these books in Arabic translations but wants to read them in German, “the original they were written in.” He prefers to read slowly, thinking carefully about each sentence before moving to the next one. He looks forward to sections where it’s difficult to figure out the meaning. This pleases him, he explained, “it’s fun, stretching my mind.” The post Nietzsche in the Car: Close Reading with my Uber Drivers appeared first on Slant Books.| Slant Books
What Is Telos? Telos (τέλος) in Stoicism is the ultimate goal or purpose of human life, the end toward which all actions should aim. The Stoic telos is to live in agreement with nature, which means living rationally and virtuously. Understanding telos helps us orient every decision, desire, and effort […] The post What Is Telos? Understanding the Stoic Meaning and Practice appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
Visions of Heaven and Hell is a three-part 1994 BBC documentary exploring the prospects and terrors of the hi-tech future that was looming on the horizon in the early years of the internet.| Compact
This is an entry to the IndieWeb carnival on ego hosted by bix.| Ruslan Osipov
As we strive to maintain a synoptic view of the field of philosophy, so as to neither narrow the scope of our awareness nor limit the expression of our understanding, the Society of Friends of Epicurus pursues a commitment to inter-disciplinary study and cross-cultural analysis. Evaluating of our own beliefs against other wisdom traditions helps contextualize personal practice, and further illuminates a larger spectrum of spirituality. In particular, we have found it profitable to compare and...| Society of Friends of Epicurus
A book review of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, the story of a psychiatrist’s survival in Nazi concentration camps and the creation of Logotherapy, a therapy centered on finding purpose even in suffering.| Via Stoica
Joanna Stalnaker— In searching for street art depicting the authors I’m teaching this semester at Columbia University, I came across a portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a photograph posted on... READ MORE The post What Remains of Rousseau? appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Celebrate 15 years at The Emotion Machine with our ‘Best of 2024’ roundup, featuring top articles and worksheets on psychology, personal growth, relationships, and philosophy — then get excited for another year of self-improvement! 2024 marks the fifteenth year of self-improvement at The Emotion Machine, making it one of the oldest and largest independent psychology (more...) The post Best of 2024: Top Self-Improvement Articles, Worksheets, and Highlights appeared first on The Emotion M...| The Emotion Machine
“What harm is there while you are kissing your child to say softly, ‘Tomorrow you will die’.” Epictetus, the Discourses, Book 3, Chapter 24.87 Gratitude is not usually the first word that comes to mind when people think of Stoicism. Many see Stoicism as a philosophy of detachment, calm, reasoned, […] The post The Stoic View on Gratitude – How to Find Peace in the Present appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
What Is Heimarmene? Heimarmene in Stoicism is the concept of fate, the rational order of cause and effect that governs the universe. It means that everything unfolds through a connected chain of events shaped by reason (logos). For the Stoics, understanding Heimarmene helps us accept what happens without despair or […] The post What Is Heimarmene? Understanding the Stoic Meaning and Practice appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
What Does It Mean to Love Your Fate? To practice Amor Fati means to love one’s fate, not just to accept it, but to embrace and love it. To affirm everything that happens as necessary and good for the whole. The phrase, meaning “love of fate,” comes from Friedrich Nietzsche, […] The post How to Practice Amor Fati: The Stoic Art of Loving Your Fate appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
To think for yourself like a Stoic means questioning assumptions, testing ideas through reason, and trusting your own judgment rather than blindly following others. “Besides, a man who follows someone else not only does not find anything, he is not even looking.” Seneca, Letters From a Stoic, Letter XXXIII In […] The post How to Think for Yourself Like a Stoic appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
The Stoic Archer “The archer ought to do all in his power to aim straight at the target.” Cicero, On Ends, Book 3.6 What does a bow, an arrow, and a target have to do with philosophy? In Stoicism, everything. The image of the Stoic archer reminds us that while […] The post The Stoic Archer: How to Aim, Act, and Let Go appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
To build self-worth like a Stoic means to measure your value by your character and actions, not by what others think or what you possess. “It starts with knowing yourself, and what value you set upon yourself.” Epictetus, Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 2.11 Modern life constantly pushes us to compare […] The post How to Build Self-Worth Like a Stoic appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
What is Boulesis? Boulesis in Stoicism is the rational will or moral desire directed toward what is truly good. It reflects the inner movement of the soul that seeks virtue and harmony with nature. While passions pull us toward pleasure and away from pain, boulēsis is guided by reason; it’s […] The post What Is Boulesis? Understanding the Stoic Meaning and Practice appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
To understand Marcus Aurelius’ view on change means seeing life as a constant flow, everything is in motion, nothing stands still, and peace comes from accepting that truth. “Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly […] The post What is Marcus Aurelius’ view on change? appeared first on Via Stoica.| Via Stoica
Explore Seneca’s Stoic view on pleasure and freedom. Learn how detachment from desire leads to real happiness and independence of mind.| Via Stoica
White Face, Foreign Hands has won First Prize in the Workplace Racism category of the 2025 Black in White Poetry Competition. Drawn from experiences working in NHS hospitals, it explores racism, exceptionalism, and the lingering legacy of colonialism.| Musings from a Stonehead
This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her| Intellectual Takeout
Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s invariably a relatively young man, and he’s…| Ecosophia
When I was seventeen years old and clueless about what I wanted to do with my life, I attended a job fair, where I stumbled upon a stand advertising a study course in industrial engineering. “So,” I asked the lady behind the counter, “what do you do as an industrial engineer?” “You’ll develop a unique […] The post Escaping the Accomplishment Trap appeared first on Stephan Joppich.| Stephan Joppich
Yesterday evening, I was walking through Midtown Manhattan catching up with my friend Mark Vlasic who happened to be in town. The streets were crowded with the usual mix of tourists, professionals …| rajiv.com
Meillassoux’s concept of justice is remote from the concerns of political philosophy and closer in spirit to a religious or eschatological vision. It isn’t immediately clear how to think about it, much less what to think. It offers little guidance for the organization of institutions in the actual world, and its dependence on speculative metaphysical... Continue reading →| The Mirror and the Lamp
Anyone familiar with the post-Wittgensteinian discussion of objectivity in anglophone philosophy (from Quine, Kuhn, and Nagel to Davidson, McDowell, Brandom, and Burge) will likely regard After Finitude (2006) as taking up a problem that had long since been set aside. That tradition largely abandoned the representational dualism that opposes mind to world, whereas Meillassoux accepts it as his point of departure and seeks to break through it with his “speculative materialism.” The same wi...| The Mirror and the Lamp
“On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That young man [Tyler Robinson], I forgive him… I forgive him because it was what Christ did… The answer to hate is not hate. The answer, we know, from the Gospel is love and always love. Love for our […]| The Chicago Thinker
When watching street debates with the vegan activists Earthling Ed and Joey Carbstrong, it becomes apparent to me that one of the biggest barriers that they (and other activists) face is personality differences. This is because certain personality traits shape our receptivity to veganism. There are indeed general cognitive biases that can make some people… The post How Personality Shapes Our Receptivity to Veganism appeared first on Sam Woolfe.| Sam Woolfe
What Is the State and Who Controls It? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system. Trump found this out in his first term. He naturally assumed that the president would be in charge, at least as regards the executive branch. He found out otherwise when the agencies worked c...| Brownstone Institute
We Stopped Practicing Capitalism by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute Nature doesn't lie. If a system isn't found in the natural world, we should question why we were trying to build it. In a world where more and more people seem to hate capitalism and clamor for socialism, I find myself wondering if we've chosen the wrong villain. Capitalism isn't the problem. Maybe it's the closest thing we have to nature. Imagine a small community. Someone opens a business, a bakery, a farm stand, a...| Brownstone Institute
Together, Apart by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] I have often wondered what it would have been like in Babel in the early days after its destruction. We don’t know that God actually destroyed the tower but imagination conjures images of people wandering in the dust of the ruins, living in the rubble of failed hopes and broken dreams. “What now?” they must have wondered. One interesting thing ...| Brownstone Institute
Too Big to Fail by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] When you read God’s response at the climax of the Babel story, it might seem like a bit of an overreaction. He spread the Babylonians across the whole earth just for building a tower in the desert? Was it really that wrong to use their ingenuity in this way? Did God feel threatened by the tower, itself, or by their resourcefulness? That’s not likel...| Brownstone Institute
Charlie Kirk and Socrates by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute On the Promethean Action website Susan Kokinda has addressed the difference between the globalists driving the attempt to demolish the extant world, on the one hand, and those who are defending a value system which enshrines reason in the best sense of the word, on the other. This specific video discussion is tellingly entitled ‘Why they hated Kirk and Socrates,’ and represents a scorching critique of those who valorise the...| Brownstone Institute
The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute This article was originally published in January 2024. Let’s start with two simple axioms: Certain sorts of the mentally ill seek power over others as they cannot control themselves. It’s a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by making their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable; it’s environment as surrogate for self. The anxious and insecure see...| Brownstone Institute
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed The NHS drowns in innovation whilst repair work goes unsupported. Why Bronson's Design as Repair framework matters for emergency medicine. The post Design as repair: what Emergency Medicine can learn (and why it is so hard) appeared first on St.Emlyn's.| St.Emlyn's
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shares a new article and video on the five kleshas — ignorance, aversion, craving, pride, jealousy — how they lead to suffering, and how not to let them. The post Three Ways of Working with Emotions appeared first on Lion’s Roar.| Lion’s Roar
Discover the true meaning of “jememôtre,” its origins, benefits, and how to practice it daily. Embrace self-mastery and mindful living with jememôtre.| Baddiehu
Walter Veit is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Philosophy at the University of Reading, where I am also the director of the PPE program as well as the philosophy MA program. "Furthermore, I am an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. My interests are broad, but I work primarily in and at the intersections of (i) the Philosophy of Cognitive and Biological Sciences, (ii) the Philosophy of Mind, and (iii) Applied Ethics. Muc...| Interalia Magazine
As artificial intelligence grows more capable, it’s reshaping how humanity confronts belief. This essay explores how machines now pose questions once reserved for prophets and philosophers—disrupting spiritual traditions, simulating consciousness, and reinterpreting faith as a cognitive inheritance. From data-driven skepticism to the algorithmic search for meaning, AI isn’t just analyzing religion—it’s participating in the inquiry. Drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and cultural r...| Interalia Magazine
Introduction Every now and again, I come across someone who has an unusual, yet interesting take to their own personal strategy. At times, I’m fortunate enough to be able to interview them and get a chance to share what I learn from that person. Here is another interview that takes ahold of personal choices in […]| The Organizational Strategist
The case for limiting human population in order to maintain the natural resources upon which it depends was powerfully made for the public by the Club of Rome’s 1972 report The Limits to Growth.&nb…| Phila Back
Eleonore Stump is a connoisseur of suffering. To quote Hamlet’s anguished words, she knows the “thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,” which come in degrees, varieties, and combinations that bring ruin to human lives. Some sufferings arise because the human heart desires goods that are fragile or uncertain. Other sufferings arise because our Read more... The post Suffering Comes in Many Forms. So Does Theodicy. appeared first on Christianity Today.| Christianity Today
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall The Human Impact vs Evolving Awareness World Animal Day rolled by, and instead of a wild celebration […]| Ozorian Prophet
We live in a time of wicked problems, some at planetary scale, each entangled with the others in a thorny thicket of multidimensional polycrisis. In a Climate Civics brief for the Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake in July, we outlined seven dimensions of polycrisis facing the community of nations in our time: Each of these is a […]| Climate Value Exchange
Why don't I take military funding?| web.eecs.umich.edu
What is Saucha?| Fitsri Yoga
First, some airy-fairy stuff, because this is the kind of shit I think about, and here’s where I vent my thoughts. But I’ll throw in some pop culture kayfabe: Ignore, if you please, the hilarious incongruity of a homicide cop who’d spent years undercover as an outlaw biker, asking a skinhead meth cook if he’s … Continue reading "Overdetermination (Salon Tense Field Guide)"| Founding Questions
Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre have published an insightful book that explains how Marx’s theory of value operates to explain the trends and fluctuations in modern capitalist economies. Called Mar…| Michael Roberts Blog
NBC gave Michael Schur total freedom. So the TV impresario made a sitcom that’s also a profound work of philosophy.| www.nytimes.com
Communal consent is usually necessary to authorize civil leaders to make governmental decisions for the whole community, and that this is a demand of general justice on the part of the purported authorities themselves.| Public Discourse
Listen very carefully to your thoughts and emotions. A negative thought or negative emotion, provided that you believe it to be true, is an energy sieve. From the point of view of energy, you shoul…| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?| Ross Wintle
“A good judge must not be a young person but an old one, who has learned late in life what injustice is like and who has become aware of it not as something at home in his own soul, but as something alien and present in others, someone who, after a long time, has recognized … Continue reading Judging the Judges→| Thoughts about leadership, history, and more
In my ongoing effort to update and fill in gaps in the content of the Thomistic Philosophy Page, I have revised and greatly expanded the material on Natural Philosophy. While this area of philosoph…| Thomistic Philosophy Page
If you ask a person on the street whether 1 is a prime number, they’ll probably pause, try to remember what they were taught, and say “no” (or “yes” or “I don’t remember”). Or maybe they’ll cross the street in a hurry. On the other hand, if you ask a mathematician, there’s a good chance […]|
Ok. Continuing the rambling chain of association from my previous post – and giving myself, as I said there, permission to move at will between objective, subjective, and normative analytic frameworks – I want to briefly move down the analytic layers and think about how to interpret some specific action. I’m again here circling around […]| Negative Catallactics
Another “thinking out loud”, and probably quite embarrassing, post – so it goes. I want to revive again the three-way distinction I’ve used before on the blog, between objective, subjective, and normative approaches to analysing action. The objective perspective on action analyses human behaviour in the idiom of scientific description – behaviourism, or Neurath-style positivism, […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok – this is another “flailing around” post where it would be better if I’d read dozens more major works before sitting down to write it – but life is short. ‘Rationalism’ and ‘irrationalism’ each pretty clearly don’t mean just one thing. In this post I want to start to think about different things they […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok – yet another review post. I’ve been finding Huw Price’s distinction between subject naturalism and object naturalism useful, in thinking through my overall pragmatist commitments. Price’s subject naturalism is concerned to address what Frank Jackson calls “placement problems” – problems about the ontological status of things we want to regard as objective, but whose […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok. In this post, as usual, I’m going to start with some review, then I’m going to write a little about Crispin Wright, Charles Sanders Peirce, Thomas Nagel, and pragmatist accounts of truth. Review first. I’m currently thinking of my core project here as extending across three domains: metaethics, social epistemology, and institutional political economy. […]| Negative Catallactics
Another rambling, self-indulgent post, as usual just trying to get things slightly clearer in my own head. As I think I’ve said before on the blog, when I studied philosophy as an undergraduate I w…| Negative Catallactics
“this spurious appearance of intelligence will make them difficult company”| indi.ca
Andrew Torba has really been on fire lately. And he says it much better than I ever have: Let us be clear so there is no confusion and no room for misinterpretation: we are not conservatives. That word has become a mark of surrender, a synonym for the managed decline of a nation we refuse […] The post We Are Not Conservatives appeared first on Vox Popoli.| Vox Popoli
Even after a man’s fifty or sixty, he can still know happiness, even do useful work.—Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi As a man moving from middle age into old age, that’s certainly good to know. Personally, I’m hoping for eight more years of soccer and at least 23 more years of active writing. AI has been a […] The post On Facing Age appeared first on Vox Popoli.| Vox Popoli
Where anders@arpi.se sometimes might write about software engineering and other things.| arpi.se
The sailboat is simply one of the most ingenious human technological advancements ever made. Anyone who’s sailed alone in a storm viscerally understands this perfection. It’s a magnificent piece of technology that harnesses the simple force of the wind to keep you gliding over certain death... L'articolo Software Didn’t Eat the World proviene da IM—1776.| IM—1776
Mark Liberman: For decades, people have been worrying about declines in literacy rates, and even steeper declines in how many people read how many books, especially among students. For a striking recent example, see Niall Ferguson, “Without Books We Will Be Barbarians”, The Free Press 10/10/2025 — that article’s sub-head is “It is not the road to serfdom that awaits — but the steep downward slope to the status of a peasant in ancient Egypt”. Although I mostly agree with the ar...| The Homebound Symphony
Eva: I transitioned in 2021—but back in 2018, I feared being rejected for being trans. Here is a discussion between Natalie and myself about gender presentation, transitioning, and acceptance.| Embrace Autism
Explore how culture, ideology, and group norms influence economic behavior in ways that go beyond standard behavioral finance models. The post Book Review: Irrational Together appeared first on CFA Institute Enterprising Investor.| CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
Hong Kong's IPO market reasserts its role as the gateway for Mainland China listings, offering investors new access but persistent concentration risk. The post Hong Kong’s IPO Boom: Gateway or Risk Trap for Investors? appeared first on CFA Institute Enterprising Investor.| CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
Readers and investors will learn how to turn charitable giving into a strategy to save on taxes, maximize charitable impact, and give smarter. The post Book Review: The Tax-Smart Donor: Optimize Your Lifetime Giving Plan appeared first on CFA Institute Enterprising Investor.| CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
CAN WEALTH AND ORDER SURVIVE? Foreword According to a recent BBC report, some of America’s wealthiest men are, or might be, investing in bunkers, or, as the article’s headline puts it, “doom preppi…| Surplus Energy Economics
The Mind-at-Large project is soliciting papers that engage creatively and critically with the re-emerging paradigm of “mind-at-large,” traversing multiple thresholds of philosophical, scientific, and cultural discourse, including but not limited to:Philosophy of Mind; Mind & Matter; Biology & Consciousness; 4E Cognition; Indigenous and Animist Perspectives; History of Science & the Disenchantment of Nature; Theology & Cosmology; and Extraordinary Experience. The post Call for Papers | Min...| Center for Process Studies
Vegandale is a vegan festival with lots of vegan food options, some information about cruelty in animal agriculture, and a very small (disappointingly small) amount of non-food vegan merch. The Toronto event in Woodbine Park is also adjacent to a coffee rave, which means the entire time a DJ is spinning loud dance music with […]| Vegan Practically
Awhile back I foreshadowed some future topics for the blog, all of which took up the intersection of ethics and etiquette in a way I find interesting. I find it interesting because mostly I think it’s a matter of ethics and environmentalism; but since so many people don’t consider the ethical or environmental impact of […]| Vegan Practically
Totemic ancestral connections to land in Warlpiri and other Indigenous Australian cultures are lines of becomings resonating with some concepts proposed by philosophers Deleuze and Guattari. The post Dreaming and Deleuze appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
Joseph Petek dives into the re-discovered essays and articles of Alfred North Whitehead. The post The Whitehead canon, version 2.0 appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
Paul Deussen understands very well that the first teaching of Advaita Vedanta is viveka–discrimination, separation, or telling apart. What is to be told apart from what? Deussen writes, “This aim [in essence, moksha] the Vedanta reaches by separating from the soul (the Self, atman) everything that is not soul, not Self, and is only transferred […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
Proposition 1: The Observer Observation implies an observer. Argument: It must be established that all objective experiences are simply observations. Initially, it may seem as if a thought, a feeling, a sensation, or a perception is, somehow, just an independently existing event. But this is not true. A little reflection shows that a sight never […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
Where is there existence, where is non-existence; where is unity, where is duality? What need is there to say more? Nothing emanates from me. –Janaka, Astavakra Samhita The Ashtakvakra Samhita ends gloriously with this verse from Janaka. It is, indeed, a statement about ajata vada. Hence, it is the ultimate teaching. In direct experience of […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
In Astavakra Samhita, Astavakra states, “Cultivate indifference to everything” (X.1). With the help of the direct path teaching of Atmananda, we can easily grasp what “everything” means. By “everything,” we mean “experience” or “direct experience.” When we ask, “What sorts?” we then come to a very simple, and provisional, taxonomy: perceptions (the world); sensations (the […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
The opening verse of Drig Drisha Viveka states: Form is the seen, the eye is the seer; that eye is the seen, and mind is its seer; thoughts in the mind are seen by the Witness which alone is the Seer, but can never be the seen. —Drig Drisha Viveka, trans. and commentary by […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
Ramana Maharshi’s “Who am I?” is such a wonderful text. Consider just one brief line of inquiry. A Dialogical Summary His interlocutor asks him about when Self-realization will occur (Question 4). Not until the idea that the world is real has been removed, replies Bhagavan. There can’t be?, queries the disciple. Nope, says Bhagavan. Why […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
When we think of someone spraying bullets through stained glass windows into a Catholic church where young children are observing morning mass, we should feel horrified. In an effort to make sense of our horror, however, we should not resort to psychological categories like “mental illness.” If we do, then, sadly, we’ve failed to reckon […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
The reason our ego disappears when we investigate it in this way is that it does not actually exist even now, but merely seems to exist when we are looking elsewhere instead of at ourself alone. –Michael James, in reference to the teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi (my emphasis) There’s something very peculiar about the […]| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
Michael James has written a number of excellent long form essays (for example, here and here) about the ajata doctrine, the highest or ultimate nondual teaching according to Gaudapada, Ramana Mahar…| Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.
Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats starts out the main body of our text by tossing the reader straightway into the deep end of the pool, launching at once into the core…| Ecosophia
Tolerably often, when I’m reading any of the documents that came out of the original Situationist International, I end up feeling as though the author is caught up in a desperate struggle between his own Marxist presuppositions and the world as it actually exists. That’s common enough in 20th century Marxist literature from outside the…| Ecosophia
At first glance the world looks a more democratic place. In 1950 T.H.Marshall defined democratic citizenship as having – civil rights (freedom of speech, thought, religion, the right to o…| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
CfP: Reading as a Social Practice. An Interdisciplinary Workshop Berlin, 27-28 March 2026 Organised by Irmtraud Hnilica (Mannheim/Hagen) and Martin Lenz (Hagen) According to a widespread consensus,…| Handling Ideas
A few months ago, I signed up for a seminar on existentialist philosophy. Because the existentialists were part of the reason I’d decided to study philosophy in the first place, I was thrilled to delve into the material. The great philosophers of the 20th century were awaiting me—Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and many […] The post You Don’t Have to appeared first on Stephan Joppich.| Stephan Joppich
Alva Noë’s book, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are, has garnered attention in both philosophical and art-critical circles. But rather than offer a review or summary here, I want to focus on a single idea that stood out—one that, I believe, reveals something vital about the power of aesthetics today. … Continue reading Reorienting Through Aesthetics→| Aesthetics Research Lab
When we think about politics, we often focus on laws, institutions, or debates. But philosopher Crispin Sartwell, in his book Political Aesthetics, invites us to reconsider this narrow view. Politics, he argues, is inseparable from its sensory and visual dimension—the images, styles, symbols, and rituals that shape how power is experienced and understood. Not all … Continue reading The Look of Power: Exploring Political Aesthetics→| Aesthetics Research Lab
Guest post by Margaret Ferguson, founder of Beyond The Chair: Earlier this year, Aesthetics Research Lab launched their project, The History of Aesthetics, to sharpen our understanding of the practice and application of aesthetics in our everyday lives. Explaining the history of aesthetics is deeply important to understanding the philosophical concepts that drive our aesthetic … Continue reading Gustatory Influences: Food Scarcity, Changing Fashions, and Aesthetics→| Aesthetics Research Lab
On the IMDb website, the highest rated film is The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Audiences rally behind Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) and Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (played by Morgan Freeman). When it comes to real prisoners, however, a stark difference seems more normal, as people adopt an out of sight and out of mind … Continue reading Aesthetics as Necessary for Prison Reform→| Aesthetics Research Lab
Sometimes a microcosm of the world allows us to examine something in a fresh way. Cosplay culture gives us a new context in which to understand how beauty standards affect people. Cosplay is the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book (often a graphic novel), video game, or comic. Most frequently … Continue reading The Aesthetic Influences on Cosplay→| Aesthetics Research Lab
