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Honor thy father and mother, says the Bible; serve and revere your parents, says Confucius. But philosopher Jane English argues that unconditional filial duty is ill-founded: if parents do not sow seeds of love with their children, then children owe them nothing at all.

"Stop Moralizing Air Conditioning" — How Institutions Shift Responsibility Onto Individuals

Digital Fascism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - "Monopoly capitalism moves beyond the boundaries of classical imperialism, invading the space of consciousness, behavior, and data"

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" — Seneca on phantasia, catastrophizing, and whether rationality can override evolutionary anxiety (Letter 13 to Lucilius)

Loneliness is rising not just due to less community, suggests Sanem Soyarslan, but also from our loss of nourishing solitude. Fostering such solitude is increasingly difficult, as our hyperconnected world conditions us to live almost exclusively in relation to others.

“Einstein echoes Wittgenstein, who emphasised in his later work that his aim was to provide ‘the understanding that consists in seeing connections’ – literally, a new way of looking” -- Ray Monk on the scientific and philosophical ideas of Einstein

AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose

"Apathy is Not Innocence" — The Absurd, Exile, and the Refusal to Choose.

The moral case for being less online: Logging off social media doesn’t mean checking out of the world.

How We Forgot Foucault - American Affairs Journal