Essays
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While the phrase “It could be worse” can provide us comfort, it may lead to less effective and less ethical forms of consolation.
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War 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.
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Parks and Rec expounds a great deal upon the teachings of Stoicism, but it is Garry Gergich—not Ron Swanson—who embodies the Stoic ideals.
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Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.
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In 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.
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American politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.
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In contrast with the algorithmic view of consciousness, process philosophy suggests that we’re fundamentally energy or “drops of experience.”
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Amidst a pandemic, Albert Camus’ novel The Plague suggests that we can find courage, community, and hope while embracing the absurd.
