Read the latest DE Weekly newsletter to learn about Aristotle’s “Paradox of Time,” Eternalism, and what different philosophers and scientists have had to say about time as an illusion, from Heidegger to Sartre.
Catch up on the latest DE Weekly newsletter, this one diving into the concept of “creatio ex nihilo,” or “creation out of nothing.” Learn what St. Augustine and Jean-Paul Sartre wrote on the matter, and what constitutes meaning in a finite state of being.
Have you read the latest DE Weekly newsletter? This one explored the ontology behind Existentialism, what Jean-Paul Sartre called “phenomenological ontology.” Learn what monism, dualism, and more had to do with its inspiration.
Catch up on last week’s DE Weekly newsletter, this one drawing on Alan Watts’s philosophical explanation of the Parable of the Chinese Farmer, and how existential thought analyzes the story.
Revisit Monday’s DE Weekly newsletter, this one explaining the philosophical thread connecting the fourth century BC with the twentieth century AD, from Pyrrhonism to Edmund Husserl to Existentialism.
Catch up on last Monday’s DE Weekly newsletter, this one exploring Thomas Nagel’s 1971 essay “The Absurd.” Learn what it means to take a “backward step” to view our lives from a universal perspective, and what our response to an indifferent universe should be according to Nagel.