Virus views: inexplicable restlessness
We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it can help us all…
Happiness
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Virus views: collective fear
We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it can help us all…
Virus views: discombobulated
We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it can help us all…
COVID-19
You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending of our lives. It…
13 questions: Ricky Gervais
1. What is your demon? Laziness. And fear of failure. Luckily, they usually cancel each other out, but it’s a constant war. 2. What…
How to live (like a Stoic)
People think that philosophy is about pondering, and ideally answering, questions like the following ones: Does life have meaning? What is a life worth…
Metaphors of the mind
Rhys Bevan-Jones works and researches in the field of psychiatry in Cardiff. He is interested in the relationship between psychology/ psychiatry and the visual…
Invest in your masterpiece – yourself
Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance of a new personality…
In pursuit of selflessness
Empathy and greed in the context of the workplace might seem too disparate to be discussed in tandem. One might seem too idealistic and…
Are you your job and nothing more?
What do you do? I’m a mechanic; I’m a horticulturalist. It’s the first question we ask others, and the way we define ourselves. What’s…
A life worth living
In 2006, scientists found a quahog clam living off the coast of Iceland that, on examination, turned out to be over five hundred years…
The lost art of happiness
Sitting around the kitchen stove with his family, a man from Ladakh, better known as “Little Tibet” describes the tourists that he’d seen in…
