The morning is early, the café empty, tensions mounting. Shiori sets down a pot of steeping tea and takes a seat across from ...

The ghost that haunts Martin Heidegger’s collected works – particularly the early ones leading up to his 1927 magnum opus Being and Time – is Dasein. That is his word for human being. So, gentle ...

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What does it mean to love? Is to be loved really to be known? Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273 CE), an eminent poet and mystic from the Sufi tradition, would vehemently disagree. Rumi would argue ...

Could machines think? Yes, in a sense, they do already. Impressively. But could machines experience and feel? Only God knows. And perhaps that’s the point. The prayer I prayed is the prayer Claude ...

We human beings are social animals. We crave friendship, relationship, reputation, intimacy. These cravings helped our ...

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And ...