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Jonny Thomson is a Big Think columnist and the award-winning, bestselling author of three books translated into 22 languages. A former philosophy teacher at Oxford, he is known for making philosophy accessible, relatable, and engaging.
It's not just about the home; it's about everything.
Getting drunk might be bad for you but good for us.
You are held, shaped, and sustained by a thousand invisible hands.
Wonder is like a guest you haven’t planned for.
One does not simply make a meme go viral.
It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.
How deep is your kink?
This is my country and this is what we stand for. At least for now.
Evolution may have built our brains, but it didn't build them to find truth.
If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
Rutger Bregman's "Moral Ambition" wants us to aim our careers not at money but solving the world's biggest problems.
What's the point in fighting a made up monster?
The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.
A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.
If you feel like you're missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
In the tears and laughter of a single life, you find the grief and joy of humanity.