Philosophy

The Tower of Babel is a story from the book of Genesis that sees the world at a time when it possessed solely one language and one common speech. The people congregated to Shinar and it was there that the...

From Moral Responsibility: An Introduction by Matthew Talbert, published by Polity Press in 2016. Reproduced by permission. This excerpt is from Chapter One (“Responsibility, Moral Responsibility, and Free...

I am a human being: Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. -- Anonymous uman kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end,...

One of the characteristics of philosophy as a field of inquiry is that — unique among human endeavors — it also inquiries upon itself. This was true since the times of Socrates and Epictetus, of course....

  There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few countries in the world where, despite everything, you can still...

What seems to have been forgotten is that one reads past theories, not because they are familiar and therefore confirmative, but because they are strange and therefore provocative. ... What we should expect...

It seems like almost every day there is an outbreak of violence somewhere in the world—whether it’s a mass shooting in the U.S., a simmering intifada boiling into war between Israelis and Palestinians,...