Ideas to change your life If I’m free, why can’t I do what I want? By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek I woke up my son Jan (9) for school, as I do every morning. He was […]
Literature & Writing Cryptic crossword – issue#2:mind Set by Gizmogenes Across 1 Take to be hypothetical (8) 5 Perhaps Carol’s volte-face is secret knowledge (6) […]
Literature & Writing 8 questions: Genís Carreras ABOUT THE ARTIST: Genís Carreras, a Spanish graphic designer based in London, produced the acclaimed “Philographics” series. 1. What prompted […]
Illusions Freedom of thought: the media and propaganda Please answer True or False: 1. During World War I, the Germans ran a factory to boil down the battlefield […]
Philosophy and you The dizziness of freedom The path laid out for Australian-born Tim Cope was to go to university, get a job, a career, a house […]
Happiness Can We Increase Gross National Happiness? The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of […]
Illusions Our surveillance society In the perfect prison, I am bathed in light. I don’t languish in the dark – I am put to […]
Philosophy and you The Splendid Mess of Personal Identity Think of the earliest memory you have. For me, it’s looking at the sea through a glass door at about […]
Philosophy and you Are we free? 6 philosophers’ views THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM IN ITS MYRIAD FORMS – BE IT FREE WILL, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, PHYSICAL OR PERSONAL FREEDOM […]
Philosophy and you Bringing thinkers into focus: Steve Pyke It’s a dismal affair when the faces of people we don’t wish to remember – such as modern-day celebrities – […]
Ideas to change your life 5 Ideas: Is there a solid core that makes you you? Ideas are powerful things. Even a little one can change the way you look at the world. And the big […]
Happiness Shorts: why do it in prison? “Why do it in prison? Well, why do it anywhere? I do it in prison because I was asked, and […]
Happiness Shorts: Epictetus and external events Think about what usually makes you angry, frustrated, anxious; most likely it has something to do with external events that […]
Illusions The news – why do we subject ourselves to it? Every night at 6.00 pm, I want you to sit in a room for half an hour. During that time […]
Ideas to change your life Game theory We sometimes joke about the world conspiring against us. For instance, I might suggest that it will rain today because […]
Oxbridge Philosophy – John Cleese & Jonathan Miller From the second Amnesty gala “An Evening Without Sir Bernard Miles” which took place in 1977.
Philosophy and you A work out for the mind Have you ever wondered why conversations with some people leave you feeling depleted while with others you feel liberated and […]
Philosophy and you The unexamined life is not worth living I have long been intrigued by the claim, attributed to Socrates, that the ‘unexamined life is not worth living’. For […]
Literature & Writing On Shadows and Realities in Education (Plato’s Cave) The Republic, Plato, Book VII AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is […]
Literature & Writing Of the things which are in our Power, and not in our Power EPICTETUS: The Discourses Book One, Chapter 1 Of all the faculties, you will find not one which is capable of […]
