New Philosopher | Magazine
but philosophers have a duty to be attentive not just to what is going on but to what, in their own experience, strikes them as most unusual, unique, exceptional: as a sign pointing to what is to come rather than to what merely is.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
But the worse touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Philosophy is more of a living attitude than a field of study.
Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day
As Ludwig Wittgenstein said in Philosophical Investigations, “philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Meanwhile, in the other camp, public philosophers such as Alain de Botton have sometimes risked derision to publish books or establish institutions designed to take a dry and analytical field back to its humanitarian roots. They have dared to remind us how the great thinkers of history might help us navigate our modern world contentedly and with mi
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