The Philosopher Raised by a Gazelle
Ibn Tufayl's philosophical fable about the evolution of reason and human culture
Philosophy
23 Posts
Love in the Time of Crisis: At the Pari Center
I'm doing a talk at the Pari Center, on wisdom, love and the task of philosophy
Spring, Like Us, Grows Old
A Poem about ageing and loss, written by one of China’s greatest women poets, Li Qingzhao
The Opposite of Wisdom: A Fool's Philosophy (Wisdom #6)
Philosophy is the love of wisdom. But what about Foolishness?
Nietzsche’s Ten Commandments for Writers
Advice on writing from the most literary of all philosophers.
Serendipity: Cultivating the Art of Creative Luck
Creative luck is not just blind chance. It can be cultivated
Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy
A chapter on Liu Xie, and the myth of the suffering writer
The Hard Cross-Cultural Problem in Philosophy
The monoculture of the global academy, and the challenge of doing philosophy cross-culturally.
Two Tales of Horse-Training
Contrasting thoughts on the metaphor of horse-training, from Buddhism and Daoism.
Hello, Stranger
Exploring our relationships with strangers, through memoir, philosophy and anthropology.
Philosophers - Their Lives and Works
An introduction to the lives and the thought of some of philosophy's greatest figures
A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish
A philosophical guide to the landscape of happiness.
