Socrates On Trial
Socrates is perhaps the most famous philosophical figure of the last 2,500 years. If you are new to philosophy then you will come to see
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Žižek on the history of humanity and violence
Couldn’t the entire history of humanity be seen as a growing normalisation of injustice, entailing the nameless and faceless suffering of millions?
Gillian Rose: To be a philosopher you need three things
Gillian Rose Quote: What do you need to be a philosopher? You discover that you are a philosopher: it is not something you ever become.
Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture – Once upon a time
Toni Morrison gives one of the most extraordinary Nobel lectures ever heard. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. While her lecture,
Noam Chomsky: Coronavirus – What is at stake?
Noam Chomsky speaks to Srecko Horvat of DiEM25 on the impact and concerns of Covid-19. In this wide ranging conversation Noam reflects on his own
Where Do We Go From Here? | Rutger Bregman
In this animated short author and historian Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists), speaks about how our perception of humanity limits what we think is possible
Humanities and Sound: International Conference
The 3rd International Conference Around the Humanities, focusing on the theme of Sound, will take place in Krakow on 30-31 May 2020. Submissions are invited
The Science and Culture of Health, Strength, and Beauty
Plato speaks of the three physical virtues—health, strength, and beauty—as joining to form one chorus with the virtues of the soul—piety, courage, temperance, and justice.
Liberal Education Student Conference
The Fifth European Liberal Education Student Conference will take place 14th-17th May 2020 and will be hosted by the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Richard Feynman: a lecture on Time
It is obvious to everybody that the phenomena of the world are evidently
irreversible. Things happen that do not happen the other way. You drop a cup and it breaks, and you can sit there a long time waiting for the pieces to come together and jump back into your hand.
The best thing for being sad
The best thing for being sad is, Merlyn tells Wart, something that the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, and never dream of regretting
Hegel and Martin Luther King
Hegel and Martin Luther King shared a deep understanding of profound change. There can be nothing new without a struggle with the old. And they might be telling us something important about right now
Radical Philosophy: read the entire archive
Explore all the issues of Radical Philosophy featuring essays and interviews from many of the modern thinkers.
What is a University?
When medievals first spoke of university they were referring not so much to institutions as to people.
Three Thousand
In this short film, Inuk artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light.
Philosophy and Kant
Towards the conclusion of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason he writes something that might come as a surprise.
Learning Online
Information is everywhere. Here’s our growing list of places that keep learning alive online.
Colons and Semicolons
Grammar is recognised as one of the seven liberal arts. The School of Life offers a brief but fascinating explanation of the subtlety of the semicolon.
Time: The History & Future of Everything
Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things.
Learning and the Soul
In Plato’s Republic the allegory of the cave reveals that each of us has a unique capacity to learn.
Nietzsche on the Body
The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd.
We need a new Romanticism
Neuroscience was part of the dinner conversation in my family, often a prerequisite for truth. Want to talk about art? Not without neuroscience.
Education: the two most important things.
Might it be said that the two most important things that education has to do contradict each other.
Bristol Undergraduate Conference
The day will include talks by notable interdisciplinary scholars, including Professor Robert Fowler, Dr. Sarah Dillon, Dr. Kathryn Telling and Dr. Liz Bird.