You have views about what makes a life happy and successful. You have, in short, a philosophy. Your philosophy affects how you live and how you evaluate people's lives, including your own. It's not ...

Science and philosophy have a long, complicated history. Both are human endeavors aimed at articulating the nature of the world. But where the line between them lies depends a lot on perspective and ...

The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of more recent philosophy, is that concerning the relation of thinking and being. From the very early times when men, still completely ignorant ...

A reader asked me to expand on the notion of spiritual materialism. Spiritual materialism is a phrase originally coined by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche that he used to describe the grasping after material ...

When self-esteem drops as children enter adolescence, materialism peaks. This study reveals a strong connection between an increase in materialism during adolescence and a decline in self-esteem.

Philosophy may be defined as a unified theory of life. The function of philosophy is to explain the universe and all its constituents. To provide oneself with a comprehensive view of life, and to have ...

Be “a man in the street and a Jew in the home”: a common piece of advice that liberal Jews often gave their co-religionists in the 19th century. If Jewishness was kept invisible and private, they ...

They rarely begin with Marx’s critique of capital, the commodity, exploitation, class power or the state. They prefer to ...