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Mary Poppins as the Bodhisattva Ideal Erraticus Image Walt Disney Studios
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Arts Ideas 

Mary Poppins as the Bodhisattva Ideal

January 11, 2019August 28, 2020 David Paul Kirkpatrick 0 Comments Ancient Wisdom, Buddhism, Film

P.L. Travers, who hung out with British mystics and studied alongside a Zen Buddhist master, would have approved of the Mary Poppins sequel.

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Follow Your Passion Is Actually Good Advice (Sort Of) Erraticus Image by Vadim Fomenok
(Vadim Fomenok)
Ideas Psychology 

‘Follow Your Passion’ Is Actually Good Advice (Sort of)

January 9, 2019June 1, 2020 Christian Jarrett 0 Comments Achievement, Emotional Well-being

Here are five recent research findings worth considering when weighing the wisdom of “follow your passion” or pursuing a calling in life.

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Anxiety Due to Absence of Exposure to Real Danger Erraticus Image by Connor Moynihan
(Connor Moynihan)
Ideas Psychology 

Anxiety Due to Absence of Exposure to Real Danger

January 6, 2019June 1, 2020 Arash Javanbakht 0 Comments Emotional Well-being

To better understand how anxiety works in us, we have to see fear in the context where it evolved—with hunter-gatherers thousands of years ago.

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Engaging in Civil Arguments Is Effective Against Extremism Erraticus Image by Antenna
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Ideas Society & Culture 

Engaging in Civil Arguments Is Effective Against Extremism

December 26, 2018June 1, 2020 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 0 Comments Polarization, Politics, Racism

Philosophers are exemplars in disagreeing vehemently but civilly with others. Like them, using these 4 principles can help us have arguments that are effective against extremism.

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Christmas Truce Raising Our White Flags with Joyeux Noël Erraticus Image
(Ernest Brooks)
Arts Ideas 

Christmas Truce: Raising Our White Flags with ‘Joyeux Noël’

December 24, 2018June 1, 2020 Erin Moore 0 Comments Christmas, Conflict

The Christmas Truce of 1914 was the final happy memory some soldiers would have. Today, in our polarized culture, ‘Joyeux Noël’ reminds us to soften our social and political barriers.

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Stereotypes Are Like Sediment Erraticus Image by Michael Prewett
(Michael Prewett)
Ideas Society & Culture 

Stereotypes Are Like Sediment

December 18, 2018June 1, 2020 Jonathan Webber 0 Comments Gender, Racism

It’s said that our actions are based on immediate intuitions, informed by accumulated stereotypes. Are we merely puppets of inherited ideologies?

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Ishiguro Explores 'Our Illusory Sense of Connection with the World'
(Matt Jones)
Arts Featured Ideas 

Ishiguro Explores ‘Our Illusory Sense of Connection with the World’

December 10, 2018June 1, 2020 Cynthia Wong 0 Comments Literature, Sadness

Ishiguro has been praised for his unapologetic investigation of loss and hope, and the “inevitable sadness” inherent in his novels.

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Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the Kingdom of God Erraticus Image
Arts Ideas 

Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the ‘Kingdom of God’

December 9, 2018June 1, 2020 Jeffrey Howard 0 Comments Literature, Soren Kierkegaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard often uses religious language in his fiction—but as religion recedes, does he think literature can create ecstatic experience?

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What Is the Sublime Erraticus Image Sea of Ice by Caspar David Friedrich
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Ideas Philosophy 

What is the Sublime? (According to Kant and Schopenhauer)

December 4, 2018June 1, 2020 Sandra Shapshay 0 Comments Nature, Romanticism, Transcendence

For Kant and Schopenhauer, scientific understanding deepens our experience with the Sublime, elevating our spiritual strength.

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Freud and Jung Feud Is It Sex or the Collective Unconscious Erraticus Image
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Ideas Society & Culture 

Jung and Freud Feud: Is it Sex or the Collective Unconscious?

November 27, 2018June 1, 2020 Sam Dresser 2 Comments Archetypes, History

Once resembling the relationship between a devoted father and an admiring son, Freud and Jung split over the question of culture’s origins.

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Psychological Studies Overlook 85 Percent of People on Earth Erraticus Image by Benny Jackson
(Benny Jackson)
Ideas Psychology 

Psychological Studies Overlook 85 Percent of People on Earth

November 18, 2018June 1, 2020 Daniel Hruschka 0 Comments Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

We can’t make claims about human nature when studies only represent a narrow slice of humanity: mostly college students, middle-class respondents living near universities, and highly educated residents of wealthy, industrialized and democratic nations.

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You're Unhappy Because You Focus on What Your Can't Control Erraticus Image by Brooke Cagle
(Brooke Cagle)
Ideas Psychology 

You’re Unhappy Because You Focus on What You Can’t Control

November 10, 2018June 1, 2020 Massimo Pigliucci 0 Comments Ancient Wisdom, Buddhism, Emotional Well-being, Stoicism

If you succeed in shifting your goals internally, you’ll be happier, because what other people do is largely beyond your control.

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An online publication focused on human flourishing, we believe that art, culture, technology, and ideas matter as much as they empower individuals and communities to live well.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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