It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous. Click here to read the full article [...] Read more

The Philosophy Teaching Library A collection of introductory primary texts Explore here [...] Read more

An interview with Hannah Arendt about her life and work in 1964 with Günter Gaus. This is a version of a re-upload. The translation is my own, but parts also come from the published version by Joan [...] Read more

The Self Under Siege - Rick Roderick I. The task of creating a life with the "self under siege" to the degree I have argued may seem impossible. At the very least, it calls for what Baudrillard calls [...] Read more

I. Marcuse became a pop figure, the philosopher of the 60s. He expressed a key contradiction in modernity. Modernity is "enlightenment", the end of myth and dogma, the power of reason; but it is also [...] Read more

We live in a world saturated with images, representations, and simulations. But what happens when these copies and imitations become more real to us than the original? This is the essence of the [...] Read more

“The heart has got to open in a fundamental way,” Leonard Cohen sang in his timeless ode to democracy — an insight not blunted by romantic mysticism but, like every Cohen lyric, honed by the [...] Read more

A few clips of Noam Chomsky discussing language, freedom, and Marx. This comes from a 1994 interview from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. [...] Read more

The distinctive features of human civilization, as opposed to animal societies, are such things as money, property, marriage, government, etc. These are created and partly constituted by linguistic [...] Read more

Spinoza, B. (2018). Ethics - Proved in Geometrical Order (Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kisner, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1677) Overview 1.1. Purpose and [...] Read more