Next Big Idea Club
Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced and Rational Thinking. Read or listen to the audio version—read by Julian himself.
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Coping with change
Why being prepared for the worst is only of limited help. and more in the microphilosophy newsletter
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What does it mean to be human?
In Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope, Sarah Bakewell reflects on 700 years of humanist thought, perusing the work of various writers, thinkers, scientists and artists who have spent time trying to understand what it means to be truly human. She tells the story of humanism, explaining why it has continued to flourish for so many years in spite of opposition from other groups.
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What is a nation?
National identities are social constructs—and no less powerful for it
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How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep7
Julian Baggini and guests Myisha Cherry and Catarina Dutilh Novaes explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on the role of anger in thinking and the need to defer to others.
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