Philosofia

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From Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life

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The problem of procrastination was recently brought to my attention by some people I know who told me that they had failed to file their income taxes for

If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?

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Susan Sontag - How much is your view of everything affected by metaphors?

What do you do when you disagree with your manager or someone senior to you? Do you voice your opinion or do you choose to keep quiet? Speaking truth to power is a rare skill. Telling someone above you that they’re wrong requires courage and confidence. Holding your tongue and staying silent or nodding your head in agreement even when you disagree definitely feels safe. It doesn’t require fighting your fears or going against your instinct. But not speaking your mind just because it’s uncomfortable is a costly mistake.

The case against empathy.

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Other is a term used to define another person or people as separate from oneself. In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other distinguish other people from the Self, as a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; as acknowledgement of being real; hence, the Other is dissimilar to and the opposite of the Self, of Us, and of the Same. The Constitutive Other is the relation between the personality and the person (body) of a human being; the relation of essential and superficial characteristics of personal identity that corresponds to the relationship between opposite, but correlative, characteristics of the Self, because the difference is inner-difference, within the Self.

Exploring attribution bias, GPT-3, and ancient pickling techniques

Only optimists can create a great future. One day, I decided to become an optimist and life became much more fun.

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Maintaining coherent beliefs is not personally useful

Members of estranged parents' forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their children give—the infamous missing reasons—are missing. This article examines the phenomenon and offers some explanations for why it happens.

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