Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher.
The Continental adventure was not going to plan for John Polidori. A young English doctor dreaming of literary acclaim and resentful of his father’s injunction to study medicine, he had accepted – against his father’s advice – a…
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Award-winning wildlife and landscape photographer Michael Poliza Zan Boag: You have spent many years of your life on the road, moving from one…
“To be able to respond to anger without bitterness, to respond to fear without retreat, to meet joy without arrogance – this is the…
When we ask people how they are, we are, in essence, asking them about their mood because moods are how we orientate ourselves in…
“All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some relationship.” - Cicero …
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…
I recently visited Japan for the first time. When I got back, and people asked me what I had found most interesting or surprising,…
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…
“There is only one inborn erroneous notion… that we exist in order to be happy.” - Arthur Schopenhauer It’s not uncommon for people…
"The truly scary part of AI... is not the thought that we can be replaced by unfree rule-following machines. It’s the intimation AI provides…
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
