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 flea market…
Flourishing
Essays and ideas exploring flourishing, purpose, wellbeing, virtue, and what it means to live a good life.
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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 truth of…
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 difference and…
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 good soil,…
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 some other…
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, I found…
Living a flourishing life
Zan Boag: You’re quoted as saying that you believe eudaimonia to be a hugely important and helpful concept, maybe even the most important concept that should…
A doctrine of better-ism
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still…
New Philosopher #44: Flourishing
“There is only one inborn erroneous notion… that we exist in order to be happy.” - Arthur Schopenhauer It’s not uncommon for people to think…
