For Nietzsche, nihilism goes deeper than ‘life is pointless’ - Psyche
2023年4月5日 · For Friedrich Nietzsche, nihilism is a terrible psychological problem – a coping mechanism with deadly consequences. Friedrich Nietzsche’s well-known reputation as a philosophical provocateur is partly the result of his commitment to disabusing his readers of a variety of beliefs: their beliefs in a higher purpose, in an afterlife, in disinterested knowledge, in …
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Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.
The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth
2021年12月13日 · is the A C Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is the author of Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021), Moral Psychology (2021) and The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), among other books. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
What we gain by recognising the role of chance in life
2024年5月23日 · is Herbert S Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. His most recent book is The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us (2024).
Our big problem is not misinformation; it’s knowingness
2023年3月27日 · Everybody knows we live in an age of misinformation. But everybody’s wrong, and here’s why it’s our age’s biggest problem. For the better part of a decade, scholars and writers across the globe have lamented the growing prevalence of misinformation, conspiracism, ideology, mistrust of experts, epistemic bubbles and echo chambers.These scourges make it …
Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back
2024年10月17日 · Our stories help us make sense of a chaotic world, but they can be harmful and restrictive. There’s a liberating alternative. Narratives are everywhere, and the need to construct and share them is almost inescapable.
There’s a reason some of us find it easier to change than others
2023年3月1日 · is a graduate student in psychological and brain sciences at Washington University in St Louis. Her research focuses on using longitudinal data to examine personality change, development, and prediction and individual differences in each of these areas.
Schadenfreude: why do we find joy in the pain felt by others?
2024年7月9日 · A brief history of schadenfreude – taking pleasure in the misfortune of another – from ancient China to Charlie Chaplin. Most of us are sad when we see someone who is sad.
How to have more meaningful conversations | Psyche Guides
2024年10月28日 · Learn more. If you’re craving more meaningful conversations, you need someone to have them with. You might be thinking that you can really have them only with people you know well, but the good news is that this isn’t strictly true.
How to create compelling characters | Psyche Guides
2021年2月10日 · Learn more. As E M Forster noted, the most compelling characters aren’t just round or dimensional, they surprise us in believable ways. The Big Five dimensions of personality describe the consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that we experience when we’re feeling at our most ‘authentic’, but in reality of course the majority of people exhibit fairly …