Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration. Why did I write all of this to you? Because I have never felt such a human closeness […]
Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions
we can’t tell ourselves whom to fall in love with – means that our wrestling with the passions is what brings the self into being. Habits consolidate what control we […]
The Weakness of the Furies
Victim anger can be useful to the political struggle, but it can also become excessive and obsessive, deforming the self. We need to address the future, and for that we […]
Buddhism and self-deception
How can I logically manage to deceive myself? Buddhist thought offers a way out of the philosophical paradox Ironically, then, Buddhists are inclined to see belief in a single substantial […]
Digital Identity Is Broken. Here’s a Way to Fix It
The bedrock of trust is a human community with frequent positive interactions – The Entangled Social Self. Most people today suffer from a strange sort of psychosis: we are uncertain […]