Freedom and Flourishing

  I asked myself the question posed above as I was reading Mich èle Lamont’s book , Seeing Others , How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World...

  Some readers will be wondering what the question means. What is this daimon? How does it relate to eudaimonia? How can you identify your d...

  I have read a great deal of the fiction written by Jean Paul Sartre, but my knowledge of his philosophical works is second-hand. I read Na...

  Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi have contributed an excellent history of libertarian ideas in their recently published book, The Individual...

 An obvious answer to the question posed above is that governments determine how much liberty people enjoy. But that response may be too gli...

  The accompanying graph shows that personal freedom tends to be greatest in countries where people hold the most emancipative values (on av...

Vipassana is an ancient form of meditation based on practice of equanimity in observation of physical sensations and thoughts. As people who...

 J C Kumarappa posed that question his book, Economy of Permanence, which was first published in 1945. He argued that in the final analysis...

  A few days ago, I took the Political Compass test for a second time. The test, devised by politicalcompass.org , requires individuals to ...

  The kid in the photo believed that the material world is an illusion. Those beliefs about the nature of reality probably led him to be som...