This philosophy, deepened by figures like Mazu Daoyi and Baizhang Huaihai, did not separate practice from daily life. Dogen inherited this stream of Chinese Zen while uniquely taking it to its logical ...

For years, philosophy graduates have been the “butt of jokes about unemployable degrees”, said Thibault Spirlet in Business Insider. Now, they can earn six-figure salaries as the “world’s most ...

There is a belief that AI training may be able to benefit from some of the ancient lessons of philosophy. The rise of the artificial intelligence era is changing expectations about careers. While ...

TEN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code”. That may have been bad ...

Sam Dogen, a personal finance author and financial blogger known as the Financial Samurai, has been a pioneer of the financial independence retire early (FIRE) movement since retiring from his Credit ...

Long-lost works of ancient philosophy have been recovered from papyrus scrolls that were scorched by the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius and thought to be impossible to read. For the first time, ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile in ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

Does free will exist? Can computers think? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? Is abortion morally wrong? Can anyone really know anything at all? By studying such difficult questions, ...