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The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth

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Pragmatism endures

A monk interviews Martin Heidegger

The American Aristotle

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Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy

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Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas

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Don’t let the rise of Europe steal world history

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Buddhism and self-deception

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Modern technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta

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First women of philosophy

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How Al-Farabi drew on Plato to argue for censorship in Islam

A funhouse mirror for the soul

A truly African philosophy

The Buddhist monk who became an apostle for sexual freedom

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Life on the slippery Earth

The philosophy of Mexicanness

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Not your Tibetan Buddhism

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Every Sufi master is, in a sense, a Freudian psychotherapist

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Escape the echo chamber

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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 and the non-Western world.
