In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature ...
Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...
When an animator is sentenced to death by Chairman Mao, Monkey and Pigsy from "Journey to the West" intervene and inspire the depressed filmmaker Featuring digital cutout animation, the meta comedy ...
When Socrates argued for self-knowledge over knowledge, he made the same turn as the Upanishads. In antiquity, Pythagoras was better known as a philosopher than a mathematician. Although he may have ...
A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...
Basic problems of philosophy and methods of philosophical thinking. Problems raised by science, morality, religion, politics, and art. Readings from classical and contemporary philosophers. Normally ...