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The daily emergency
“[The] selective concern with the ‘inner drama’ enables the writer or artist to capture the essential feature of human experience; it allows him to…
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Get love without chance
“I do think that people literally get addicted to cell phones and social media, yes. It’s important to recognise that addiction is a spectrum…
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Filling the void
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world…
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Animal spirits
“It is rare to see a professional economist, in interpreting the past or forecasting the future, quoting what a businessperson or newspaper writer thinks…
Being Human
Becoming a superhero
Imagine you were given the chance to become a superhero. Let’s say a genie pops out of an old urn you purchased at a…
Being Human
The self that is not a self
From the Flourishing edition, available from our online store Existence is suffering. We don’t have to look far to see the…
Being Human
13 questions: Christian Miller
From the Flourishing edition, available from our online store What is your demon? My doubts that my work hasn’t made any…
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Somewhere to flourish
For much of my early adult life, I viewed flourishing as a state of being that necessitated certain ingredients, much like a plant requires…
Being Human
Optimising mutualism
“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of…
Being Human
Flourishing enough
I recently visited Japan for the first time. When I got back, and people asked me what I had found most interesting or surprising,…
Being Human
Living a flourishing life
Interview by NP's editor Zan Boag with Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her chief interests…
Slumbering energies
At 2:00 pm on August 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine collapsed in the Atacama Desert, and 33 miners were instantly trapped 700…