Should We Take Comfort in the Knowledge Others Have it Worse?
While the phrase “It could be worse” can provide us comfort, it may lead to less effective and less ethical forms of consolation.
Read MoreWhile the phrase “It could be worse” can provide us comfort, it may lead to less effective and less ethical forms of consolation.
Read MoreWar and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.
Read MoreParks and Rec expounds a great deal upon the teachings of Stoicism, but it is Garry Gergich—not Ron Swanson—who embodies the Stoic ideals.
Read MoreWhether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.
Read MoreIn defending liberalism, the philosopher Richard Rorty argues that there is no difference—in practice—between aiming at justification and aiming at something more called truth.
Read MoreAmerican politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.
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