The stakes in the final conflict are thus: should the revolt against tyranny be just a fight for the return of the old kinder version of the same hierarchical order, or should it develop into the search for a new order that is needed?
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Philosophy for Everyday Life
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 31 – April 7, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring a preview of the upcoming intellectual showdown between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek; China's vagrant philosopher who went viral; Podcaster Joe Rogan as today's Socrates; and a teenager's off-the-grid life in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 18 – April 1, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring Stoicism for Silicon Valley techies; 'The Matrix' 20 years on; civic republicanism's planet-saving potential; and Kierkegaard’s restless and ridiculed life.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 11 – 19, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring the ethics of spawning in a warming world; Peter Singer's Instagram account; the drawbacks of eternal bliss; Puffing & strutting (our primate politics); and a new philosophy of sex
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 4 – March 11, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring Socrates' love affair with a woman who helped lay the foundations of Western philosophy; the many wonderful uses of the word, 'dipshit'; digital minimalism or how to de-clutter your technological life; and what America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: February 24 – March 3, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring the sorrows of 'workism' (turning your career into a religion); life's big question (to tip or not to tip?); an unorthodox approach to battling demons; and a guide to countering science deniers.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: February 17 – February 24, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring another attack by anti-Marxist vandals; why quitting your job to travel the world kinda sucks; the Good-Enough Life; Daniel Dennett on AI; and a new book on how the world thinks.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: February 10 – February 17, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring animal consciousness, anti-natalism (suing your parents for creating you); interviews with Haruki Murakami & Sam Harris; and the reasons for homeschooling or even 'unschooling,'