Explore philosophy through its most famous quotes. Today: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: “It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul…” (more...)

Explore philosophy through its most famous quotes! Today: Socrates on knowing that you know nothing. (more...)

Explore philosophy through its most famous quotes! Today: Immanuel Kant on how to treat human beings. (more...)

Josh Milburn’s “Just Fodder” is a very thoughtful and rigorous analysis of the ethical issues related to feeding animals. (more...)

Hell is utterly impossible to put down just because of the sheer force of its language… (more...)

An interesting idea and a great table of contents, but the execution is unclear about who the ideal reader is — and will really satisfy nobody. (more...)

Let us start with David Hume. Context, caveats and nuances come later. Here is Hume, writing with regard to alleged miracles: (more...)

Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct? (more...)

The creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise, but with it also comes existential risk. (more...)

A rhetoric of slowness and speed has been used by philosophers since the ancient periods to characterise and assess different ways of life. (more...)

Hermits, from the Greek “eremites,” (=men of the desert), are found in all cultures and at all times. In this article, we look at the phenomenon of hermit life as a whole, before we go into more detail in future posts in this series. (more...)

From the Garden of Eden to urban allotments, gardens have accompanied and enriched human history and culture from ancient times to now. In this article, Ian James Kidd traces the spiritual history of gardens as places of refuge from the world. (more...)

What is meant is a form of respect that is a condition, one might say a conceptual precursor, to love proper. (more...)

Stock’s latest work will annoy supporters of the UK’s attempts to legalise consensual assisted dying. (more...)

Instead of pretending that animal rearing is a just endeavour, may we face the real nature of this practice. (more...)

For Aristotle, the moral development of a person progresses in three stages: from akrates, to enkrates, to sophron or wise person. (more...)

For a long time, we have been watching the public discussion on cultural appropriation. Many writers and philosophers, even guests we have interviewed here on Daily Philosophy, have been reluctant to discuss the topic in public. (more...)

There is a possible archetype here of the silent, rejected saint, the unthanked helper, the monk in exile. (more...)

Women philosophers: Gargi Vachaknavi, Aspasia, Ban Zhao, Hypatia of Alexandria, Rabia al-Adawiyya, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Nana Asma’u. (more...)

Thales of Miletus is generally cited as one of the first philosophers, although his contributions extended to many sciences and even to business endeavors. (more...)

If we want to declutter, we must, according to Erich Fromm, first change our relationship to the world. (more...)

Promoting human-made art. This week, and artwork by Rossella Vingelli. (more...)

Who was Friedrich Nietzsche, what did he write, and what did he mean by the death of God, master and slave morality, the will to power, the Übermensch and eternal recurrence? A guide to his life, works, ideas and lasting relevance. (more...)

What is bad faith (mauvaise foi) in Sartre’s philosophy? Sartre’s examples of the waiter and the woman on a date explained, and how bad faith compares to Heidegger’s authenticity, Nietzsche’s herd morality and Fromm’s escape from freedom. (more...)

A guide to Plato’s Lysis, the first philosophical work on friendship: its setting, Socrates' conversation with Lysis and Menexenus, the puzzles about like and unlike, the ‘first friend’, the famous ending, and why this short dialogue still matters. (more...)

Who was Michel Foucault, what did he write, and what did he mean by discourse, power/knowledge, discipline, biopower and the care of the self? A guide to his life, major works, key ideas and why he still matters. (more...)

What is existentialism? A beginner’s guide to the movement from Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus – its core ideas, its religious and atheist wings, and the argument that Sartre was never really an existentialist at all. (more...)