Articles Tagged with #philosophy
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Video
What to Do About Insomina
An adorable animation explains that the key to solving insomnia may be a daily dose of philosophy.
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Phenomena Understood
The Girl on the Lawn
Forget anxiety, overcaution, or just plain unhappiness. The real problem with parenting is philosophy.
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Video
In the Last Ditch
Don’t bully yourself over your career. Just redefine “success.”
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Political Lives
Thoroughly Modern Marxism
A Marxist upbringing, graduating into a recession, and a lineage of missed opportunities make a brutal combination.
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The College Desk
German Philosophy for Immigrants
The line to speak with a consular official is never so long as when you’re studying 19th-century philosophy and everything you desire exists on the other side of an ocean.
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Personal Essays
The Crap in My Head
Little things people say can get stuck in your brain and become triggers, forcing you to relive moments you’d rather forget. Well, for aspiring linguists, it’s much, much worse.
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Spoofs & Satire
Kafka in the Green Zone
It’s difficult to make friends in the middle of warfare, but the least you can do is try. Join the existentialist as he rapidly descends through his tour of duty.
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Stories
Schrödinger’s Iraq
Philosophy, Iraq, mice? President Bush made some very strange comments in a press conference.
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Spoofs & Satire
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Revisited
In the first installment of a new series of re-readings, we dust off our dog-eared copy of Metamorphosis and see it in a decidedly different light.
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The Non-Expert
ConEd and Hobbes
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we get into paying your ConEd bill, war-focused philosophy, and stabbing asses.
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Stories
Pascal’s Wagering
Even great philosophers must eat, go to the bathroom, iron their shirts, get dumped. Like all of us, some live great lives, most suffer. But none can avoid the troubles of being human.