Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist who pioneered theories on the communication of meaning. He proposed a two-part model of...

Harry Potter is an excellent way to introduce children to moral philosophy and mythology, as well as encourage critical thinking

Successive political, social, and health crises in western democracies – indeed in most of the world now – mean that staying abreast of current affairs can be a painfully depressing exercise. The ambient pessimism is so pervasive that our society’s problems can seem intractable, but this fatalism can become a self-fulfilling prophecy that puts democracy itself at risk. Rampant political partisanship feeds into this negativity, because virtually any pronouncement from any poli

A personal look at my journey to stoicism and how I didn’t so much choose it but was inevitably drawn to it. I didn’t know my maternal grandfather very well. I grew up in a different country, and he passed away when I was relatively young, so it is always interesting to learn more about him. As such, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he had an interest in stoic philosophy. I only recently discovered the philosophy of stoicism – which seeks to minimise suffering by help

One of Buddhism’s key insights is that much of the suffering in the world comes from people not seeing reality as it really is.