Philosophy
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Rob Tempio
Publisher, Philosophy, Political Theory, & the Ancient World -
Ben Tate
Senior Editor, Humanities, Europe
The philosopher Wilfrid Sellars characterized the aim of philosophy as the effort βto understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.β Animated by a similar purpose, the philosophy list publishes widely across the field topically and historically, in order to provide the broadest possible understanding of the world and how to live wisely within it.
With strengths in the history of philosophy and moral and political philosophy, we publish books that reach into adjacent fields and we seek to engage general readers in search of the wisdom philosophy has to offer.
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Ideas
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Pursuits of happiness
βOf course we all want to be happy,β wrote the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in 46 BCE.Β In doing so, he was echoing not only centuries of popular sentiment but also the teaching of Greek philosophers.
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What Do You Want Out of Life?
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of moneyβor work for justice? To run marathonsβor sing in a choir? To have childrenβor travel the world? The things we care about in lifeβfamily, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral idealsβoften conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us.
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Minding our minds
Roughly twenty-five centuries ago in northern India, the Buddha learned to watch his feelings in order to forge new kinds of relationships with them.
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On Democracy and Bullshit
Weβre continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurtβs seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with HΓ©lΓ¨ne Landemore is on democracy and bullshit, with a special focus on her book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century.
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Carrying the Olympic flame
My application to carry the Olympic torch in my adopted home of Sicily had been accepted. Along with 10,000 others from every walk of lifeβfrom famous celebrities to those who battle crippling diseaseβI would be part of the team that transports the flame from its origin in Ancient Olympia to the Games. I knew it would be a wonderful experience, but the strongest impression it left on me is not one that I expected.
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