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Category Archive: Philosophy

Why Does Society Divide Itself Into Smaller Categories of People Over Time? (In-Group and Out-Group Formation)

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We are born without prejudice. Ask a baby if he hates any particular person and he will stare […]

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Joshua Krook April 13, 2015 Discrimination, Ideas, Philosophy

How to Combat Schadenfreude, or Enjoying The Pain of Others

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Due to evolution, when our enemy is hurt, we celebrate. When our enemy is killed, we chant in […]

Joshua Krook April 10, 2015 Discrimination, Ideas, Philosophy

Cezanne’s Writings and Finding Meaning in Nature

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult as time progresses for humanity to have any connection to nature. And almost to […]

Joshua Krook February 11, 2015 Books, Ideas

An Entitlement Complex, or Gen Y’s Quest for Meaning?

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In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,” those who […]

Joshua Krook December 10, 2014 Ideas, Philosophy, Politics

How to Find Meaning in Work

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The argument for perspective has won. No longer can we question what is wrong with life, the world […]

Joshua Krook July 12, 2014 Ideas, Philosophy

Book Excerpt: On Empathy

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It is a simple matter to rank the empathy we feel for those around us. Consider the following: […]

Joshua Krook July 7, 2014 Discrimination, Ideas, Philosophy

Why Cliches are Meaningless (So Stop Using Them)

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There is a growing trend of what I like to think of as the outsourcing of thought – […]

Joshua Krook June 11, 2014 Ideas, Philosophy

True Detective and the Myth of the Intellectual

In 1784 Immanuel Kant answered a question, posed a year earlier by Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner – “What is […]

Swapnil Mindhe April 27, 2014 Ideas, Philosophy, University

The Politics of Division: How Politics Destroys Rationality

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There’s a long-running trend in student politics for students to shout out “shame” when their opposing political party […]

Joshua Krook April 21, 2014 Philosophy, Politics, University

Truth, Myths and Meaning

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J. R. R. Tolkein once said that myths, “At the very least… allow us to catch a fleeting, […]

Joshua Krook April 17, 2014 Ideas, Philosophy

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