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网页Targeted. For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks. Justin Garson. More. The latest and most popular Essays from Aeon. Longform articles on philosophy, psychology, science, society, history and the arts, written by the world’s leading thinkers.
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网页Anticolonial modernity was founded upon the fight for liberation from communists, capitalists and imperialists alike. Frank Gerits. More. Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon ...
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网页Governing for the planet. Nation-states are no longer fit for purpose to create a habitable future for humans and nature. Which political system is? Jonathan S Blake & Nils Gilman. Society Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore big ideas from history, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy, archaeology and anthropology, and more.
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网页Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems. Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam. More. Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to ...
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Tools for thinking: Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts of freedom
网页2019年2月11日 · The 20th-century political philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) thought that the answer to both these questions was ‘Yes’, and in his essay ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (1958) he distinguished two kinds of freedom (or liberty; Berlin used the words interchangeably), which he called negative freedom and positive freedom.
What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?
网页2018年4月23日 · Wolfe argued that Arendt concentrated too much on who Eichmann was, rather than what Eichmann did. For Arendt’s critics, this focus on Eichmann’s insignificant, banal life seemed to be an ‘absurd digression’ from his evil deeds. Other recent critics have documented Arendt’s historical errors, which led her to miss a deeper evil in ...
We will never be able to live on another planet. Here’s why | Aeon …
网页2023年1月16日 · We depend completely on the billions of other living organisms that make up Earth’s biosphere. Without them, we cannot survive. Astronomical observations and Earth’s geological record are clear: the only planet that can support us is the one we evolved with. There is no plan B. There is no planet B.
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’ - Aeon
网页2018年11月21日 · Photo courtesy Wikipedia. ‘The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One,’ wrote Albert Einstein in December 1926. ‘I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.’. Einstein was responding to a letter from the German physicist Max Born. The heart of the new theory of quantum mechanics ...
The Gospels of Paul don’t say what you think they say - Aeon
网页2018年1月8日 · But Paul is quite explicit: ‘Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom.’. Neither can psychē, ‘soul’, the life-principle or anima that gives life to perishable flesh. In the age to come, the ‘psychical body’, the ‘ensouled’ or ‘animal’ way of life, will be replaced by a ‘spiritual body’, beyond the reach of death ...
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