Philosophy
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Why Does Society Divide Itself Into Smaller Categories of People Over Time? (In-Group and Out-Group Formation)
We are born without prejudice. Ask a baby if he hates any particular person and he…
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How to Combat Schadenfreude, or Enjoying The Pain of Others
Due to evolution, when our enemy is hurt, we celebrate. When our enemy is killed, we…
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Cezanne’s Writings and Finding Meaning in Nature
It’s becoming increasingly difficult as time progresses for humanity to have any connection to nature. And…
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An Entitlement Complex, or Gen Y’s Quest for Meaning?
In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,”…
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How to Find Meaning in Work
The argument for perspective has won. No longer can we question what is wrong with life,…
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Book Excerpt: On Empathy
It is a simple matter to rank the empathy we feel for those around us. Consider…
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Why Cliches are Meaningless (So Stop Using Them)
There is a growing trend of what I like to think of as the outsourcing of…
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True Detective and the Myth of the Intellectual
In 1784 Immanuel Kant answered a question, posed a year earlier by Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner –…
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The Politics of Division: How Politics Destroys Rationality
There’s a long-running trend in student politics for students to shout out “shame” when their opposing…
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Truth, Myths and Meaning
J. R. R. Tolkein once said that myths, “At the very least… allow us to catch…
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