Mike JansonStoryboardPhilosophy For the 21st CenturyCurated byTheCollectorWhat philosophical conundrums do philosophers preoccupy themselves with today? From transhumanism to political reform, these philosophical debates still rage today.
Mike Janson5 hours agoQuand Salman Rushdie lançait un cri d’alarme dans « l’Obs » : « Il faut arrêter cet aveuglement stupide »nouvelobs.com - Sara Daniel33 ans sous la menace d’une fatwa qui réclame sa mort. Salman Rushdie, auteur mondialement connu du livre « Les Versets sataniques », est la cible …
Mike Janson1 day agoIt’s Not Just Long COVIDverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Hank BalfourSociety has been underestimating the long-term consequences of viruses, bacterial infections, and parasites for ages. Several months into the pandemic, a new aspect of COVID-19 started gaining attention from scientists, journalists, and health-care professionals. Instead of feeling better two weeks …
Mike Janson1 day agoRole of Ethics: Baruch Spinoza’s Determinismthecollector.com - Moses May-HobbsIn the Ethics (1677), Spinoza describes a totally determined world: endless chains of cause and effect in which physical events (what Spinoza speaks …
Mike Janson1 day agoWhy death mattersbigthink.com - Adam FrankDefinitions of life are notoriously hard to pin down. Is a fire alive? It has a kind of metabolism, and in a sense it reproduces by spreading. Is a …
Mike Janson2 days agoForget being nice at work and do these 5 science-backed things insteadverified_publisherFast Company - By Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicGood organizational citizenship is a key ingredient of your job performance, and being rewarding to deal with is a strong and consistent predictor of success. Oscar Wilde once noted that “some people bring happiness wherever they go, others, whenever they go.” The difference between these two types …
