Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
given that we are free, how can we use our freedom well in such challenging times?
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
The eccentric, glorious French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau had, in the eighteenth century, laid the grounds of discontent with modern civilisation by denouncing it as a destroyer of the ‘authenticity’ of human beings.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
is possible to pursue pleasure without heedlessly opting for the pleasure that is closest at hand.
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
pacifist.
Annaka Harris • Lying
Enlightenment philosophers such as Locke set out to free political institutions from arbitrary rules and assumptions.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Their philosophies remain of interest, not because they are right or wrong, but because they concern life, and because they take on the two biggest human questions: what are we? and what should we do?
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
“Less certainty. More inquiry.”
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff
freedom of thought and correctness of thought,