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Crack open any neuroscience textbook and you’ll be taught about the processes of the brain and the relationships between sensory organs, neural activity, and even the arising of subjective Continue Reading
Epicurus, born in 341 BC, was a man ahead of his time. His thoughts on happiness, friendship, and the nature of reality continue to resonate today. Epicurus was an ancient Greek Continue Reading
Some of the most powerful words in philosophy come from the writings of Marcus Aurelius a true philosopher king, probably one of only a handful in history. Marcus, who Continue Reading
I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 1970’s at about the age of 7, I asked my father what happened after we died. He went quiet Continue Reading
Of all of the questions that philosophers commonly get asked this one keeps on coming up time after time, after time. People ask ‘why is there suffering in the universe?’ Continue Reading
Like most young men, I used to like to go out and get drunk with friends after a hard week’s toil in my dead-end job. Drinking doesn’t suit me, it’s Continue Reading
I’m a middle-aged man who is also quite cynical, that’s why I was disgusted to recently see a TV advertisement by a cancer care charity that focused heavily on the Continue Reading
Introduction In this article we will explore the epicurean notions of wellbeing my primary source is book one of Cicero’s De Finibus in which Lucius Torquatus delivers a broad Continue Reading
“Nobody is born on purpose,” at least that’s what Morty said to Summer in my favourite contemporary cartoon series, and so it goes that nobody has any control over the Continue Reading
The biggest curse to befall mankind is the sure and certain knowledge that one day we will all die. This knowing, this understanding can cast a long shadow over a Continue Reading