The Transcendent Brain
Humans are evolutionarily drawn to beauty. How do such complex experiences emerge from a collection of atoms and molecules?
Philosophy
Why Kids Make the Best Philosophers
Adults have a lot to learn from the questions only children are willing to ask.
Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached
How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts
A Journey Into the Animal Mind
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
How to Live Better, According to Nietzsche
John Kaag’s fascinating new book about the German thinker seeks to tether philosophy back to the mess of daily experience.
Our Need for a Public Philosophy
In his new book, The Public Philosophy, which has just been published, WALTER LIPPMANN has analyzed the reasons for the drastic impairment of the power to govern which has imperiled the western democracies during the past four decades. He shows that this deterioration began before 1914, that Lord Bryce saw the warning signs in 1920; and he shows how deep-seated the disorder has become since 1938. The great question to which he addresses himself is whether this decline can be checked and to what extent Democracy can renew its strength. This is the last of three excerpts we have drawn from Mr. Lippmann‘s book.
Is History Predictable?
Clergyman and author,DR. REIN HOLD NIEBUHR has been Professor of Applied Christianity at the Union Theological Seminary since 1930. He was ordained in 1915 and took up his first and only pastorate in the Bethel Evangelical Church of Detroit, where over a period of thirteen years the membership mounted from forty to more than eight hundred. In his lectures, as in his books, Dr. Niebuhr has carried on an intellect tad crusade against the complacencies of an age of reason.