Why We Are All Addicts
[4:13] We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using some…
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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself
[5:23] The real reason we may destroy ourselves isn’t really to do with politics or economics or even warfare. It has t…
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Philosophie + Pornographie: Kant
[3:37] Immanuel Kant was one of the foremost philosophers to reflect on aesthetics; he was particularly interested in …
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The Seven Deadly Sins
[7:30] The Seven Deadly Sins were a list of psychological flaws first identified by Christianity in the 4th century. Ch…
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How To Be A Man
[4:32] The idea of manliness has grown indelibly associated with the idea of being cool. We’d be wiser to shift the mas…
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Why You Still Have Time To Change Career
[3:04] We often feel as if we might have run out of time to change career. That’s because we usually have a wrong underst…
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What It’s Like Inside Our Minds
[3:21] It’s remarkably hard to imagine what it might be like inside our minds. But doing so helps us to see that the real …
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What our Wedding Vows should Say
[5:38] Some of the trouble of long-term relationships comes from the vows we say at the beginning. We should learn to ref…
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
[4:21] We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, S…
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Why We Go Cold On Our Partners
[5:20] Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are – somewhere deep d…
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