We’ve Moved!
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by Jon Hawkins
3y ago
Dear Fellow Reader, You may have noticed our output of articles has increased over the last few months. We try and touch on a range of fields. To maintain the adequate level of expertise to guarantee each piece is heavily researched and accurate; our team of writers has increased. With that, our readership has grown exponentially. We have just hit 50,000 views over the last 30 days – and we’re fast approaching our first 500 followers. Right now, most of our articles are exclusive to our Medium publication. In doing so, our writers are paid for their hard work. As you can imagine, that allows u ..read more
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How the Lockdown is Putting a Reset Button on Society
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by Taylor Franklin
3y ago
Maybe we all needed a break. Coronavirus has kept most of us at home and social distancing from the beginning of March. This was a time where I was in the midst of my college life in Seattle, Washington. I had a job, friends, school work, a potential boyfriend, a routine to my life that I surely loved. Then the news came. We would be sent home early for spring break, and the rest of the year would be online. This article is exclusively featured on our Medium publication. Follow this link to read it in full ..read more
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Happiness Is Not An Accident
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by Jack Kenny
3y ago
3 lessons from the life of a Philosopher of happiness Do you prioritise your time? If there was a pie chart of your life showing you what your hours had been spent doing then how would you feel? So many of us do not prioritise the things we want in our lives. If we don’t intentionally prioritise the things we spend our time doing then we are habitually going to spend our lives doing things that we simply don’t like doing. This article is exclusively featured on our Medium publication. Follow this link to read it in full ..read more
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Do We Choose Our Reality?
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by Micheal Woronko
3y ago
An interactive post regarding the most popular question in all of philosophy. “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer It’s a question that has been asked since as long as Philosophy itself has existed, albeit not in such a way. Usually, we’d call this the free will versus determinism debate but, with the currently philosophical landscape upon which we find ourselves, we may want to update the terminology accordingly.  This is the last in a tripartite series of interactive posts (the first of which concerned time and the second, consciousness ..read more
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We’re Born Behind the Blind Wall
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by Dalton Orvis
3y ago
John Rawls, the veil of ignorance, and judgment One of my more profound moments in life — one that changed me to the core and influenced my very perspective on the people I share this world with, came from considering a thought experiment that went something like this: I’m a member of a divine team of decision-makers. We want to construct a social contract that will inform the social structure for already-existing animals called humans. We’re interested only in providing what’s best for them, and we act as beneficent curators of the human condition.  But there’s a catch.  This a ..read more
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The Philosophy of Metta Meditation
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by Daniel Lehewych
3y ago
What loving-kindness meditation can teach us about ethics Mindfulness Meditation: A Growing Trend Of all the world’s religions, Buddhism — in its vast manifestations — resembles that of what can be considered “philosophy” the most. That is not to say that there are not the typical elements of what we ordinary associate with religion with (namely, otherworldliness and far out their metaphysics). However, unlike most religions, the doctrines of Buddhism — most of which are referred to as sutras (aphoristic scriptures attributed to the word of the Buddha) — contain profoundly novel ethi ..read more
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How to Understand Hegel’s Philosophy
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by Douglas Giles, PhD
3y ago
A step by step guide. It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that in the last 100 or so years there has been a war in philosophy. But if we can describe the long “analytical/continental” divide in philosophy as a war, Hegel is at the foundation of one side of it. Hegel produced an all-encompassing system that still incites passion among philosophers, some of whom lack a thorough understanding of Hegel.  To call someone a “Hegelian” is, depending on who is saying it, high praise or an insult. Few, if any, today are true followers of Hegel’s system, but his philosophy has influenced much ..read more
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Self-Knowledge & the Evolution of Being
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by John Driggs
3y ago
Part 3 — Adolescence: Discovering Your Soul Take a look at the entirety of your life, from the moment you slipped out of your mama’s womb to now, and ask yourself if there was a point along this journey when you discovered the “I”? Yes, the ego — that incessant voice in your head — but also the formless, boundless, non-transferable divinity in you: the “I”? What about if we take a bird’s-eye view of the evolution of human thought? Is there a point in time when humanity first discovered the “I”? Once discovered, how were we then able to share something that can’t be removed from you? That ..read more
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Transform Your Belief By Recognizing Its Source
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by Nishith Goyal
3y ago
Do you own your belief system? Alice: This is impossible The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is. Why did you open this article? Because you “believed” there is something in it for you. Now, if I may request you to please stop reading and have a look around you. Notice everything. Your laptop, books, pen, sticky notes, reading glasses, chair, electric cables, the Wifi router, smartphones, clothes, notice everything. The realities of our current lives were once formless. But then, someone “Believed.” Belief supersedes thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and actions. The ancestor of every ..read more
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The New American Employment Contract
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by Russell Weigandt
3y ago
The perils of corporate culture creep Long gone are the days of golden parachutes and cushy corporate pensions. Over the last several decades, corporations have progressively shifted more risk and expenses onto their employees. As the coronavirus pandemic has exposed been to many Americans, most corporations really don’t have the public’s best interests in mind. From worker safety to mass layoffs, attempted hijacking of small business safety nets and leaving laid-off workers without healthcare benefits, the decisions that corporations have made reveal just how brazen they have become. It ..read more
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