When life seems the hardest, old wisdom tells you that you have no one else to rely on but yourself. Even good people change. Politicians can easily change their minds, but this actually reveals more ...

It is possible to care deeply about conceptual and existential questions and extended projects without feeling the need to determine the single, total purpose of one’s life.

Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya, Cornerstone £16.99/ Riverhead $27, 240 pages Nasty, Brutish and Short : Adventures in Philosophy With Kids by Scott ...

Ad Policy Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. This article appears in the May 2025 issue. Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates is like many works of philosophy: It is addressed to a certain kind of skeptic ...

Philosophy involves thinking and analyzing life and its questions, engaging critically with philosophical wisdom gives us awareness and the ability to calm our anxieties and fears.

Welcome to the Philosophy Department. Every human being seeks answers to life’s most basic questions—questions regarding the nature of knowledge, truth, rationality, language, being, transcendence, ...

NEW YORK, January 10, 2013 — Author Manu Joseph discusses philosophical and sexual themes in his book while commenting on the uprising surrounding the recent gang rape and subsequent protesting in ...

Does philosophical reflection still have ... only a search for a deeper meaning to the apparent meaninglessness of life, or do philosophical questions that arise in the mind have a connect ...