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Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, unfortunately, didn’t have much to offer us in his consolations about death, but, more importantly, he succ...

Wabi-Sabi is more than just minimalism. It’s a philosophy of imperfection and acceptance to live your life by. The Japanese philosophy of Wa...

A short disclaimer before we read further: I’m a materialist. Materialism is a branch of philosophy to which the sciences, particularly the ...

The Philosophical Hard Problem Some say consciousness is mysterious. But there are two ways to think about this. One is that consciousness i...

Even among non-neuroscientists, determining the origin and purpose of consciousness is widely known as “the hard problem.” Since its coinage...

What is the meaning of life? What are good and evil? What is justice? These are some of the questions that philosophers have been asking for...

One of the stranger articles we’ve seen in a long time at Aeon proposes a war on the very concept of “the mind.” “The terms ‘mind’ and ‘ment...

TUCKED AWAY in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s...

In the context of meditation practice, meditators can experience a state of “pure awareness” or “pure consciousness”, in which they perceive...

 

The French philosopher Descartes once said,    "I THINK THEREFORE I AM."   and  the world decided that this was proof enough to ex...

Russian cosmism is a philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia at the turn of the 19th century, and again, at the beginn...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matte...