Spring, Like Us, Grows Old
A Poem about ageing and loss, written by one of China’s greatest women poets, Li Qingzhao
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The Life of Activity: Work, Labour and Action (Work #2)
The philosopher Hannah Arendt provides an incisive account of work, labour and action. This week, we see how Arendt can help us think better about work.
Mozi and the Challenge of Universal Love
Mozi, one of the most influential early Chinese philosophers, proposed a society based on universal love, protected by a system of rewards and punishments.
Working it Out: The Philosophy of Work (Work #1)
Season three of our Looking for Wisdom course, where we're looking at the philosophy of work. This week: hunters and gatherers, Mencius, Aristotle and slavery.
Democritus and Reasons to be Cheerful
Democritus and his teacher Leucippus were the first philosophers to propose that all things were made up of the joining-together of imperceptible atoms.
The Art of Waiting: Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley in November
A masterpiece of children’s literature about grief, friendship, human difference, and the art of waiting.
Love and Understanding: The tangle of love and wisdom
Is philosophy the love of wisdom? Or is it, as some philosophers have suggested, the wisdom of love?
The Secret of Creativity Is Not Suffering, It Is Pleasure
Three rules for the creative life: avoid suffering, embrace difficulty, seek out pleasure
Gautama Buddha and the Turn Toward Experience
The Buddha was a wandering renunciant in Ancient India who kick-started a two and a half thousand-year-old religious and philosophical tradition. But who was he?
Thirty-six kinds of divination to try at home
Human attempts to read, interpret and over-interpret the world are fascinatingly diverse.
This is a list of some divination methods, culled from here and there. Wikipedia has a much more comprehensive list, but these are my favourites. If you happen …