
The Way of Zen: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Alan Watts’s The Way of Zen introduces Zen Buddhism by challenging the assumption that spiritual life is mainly about acquiring better beliefs.…
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Alan Watts’s The Way of Zen introduces Zen Buddhism by challenging the assumption that spiritual life is mainly about acquiring better beliefs.…
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What is consciousness made of? Is there a single place in the brain where the self lives, or is the feeling of…
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What makes an action just? Is fairness about equal outcomes, equal opportunity, individual freedom, maximizing happiness or giving people what they deserve?…
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What happens if artificial intelligence becomes substantially more capable than humans at many economically and strategically important tasks? Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence examines…
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What if society’s judgment of a person has less to do with the act they committed than with whether they behave according…
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What if there is no universal instruction manual telling us what our lives must mean? Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism Is a Humanism is…
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Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning combines an account of his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps with an introduction to logotherapy,…
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What does it mean to live well? Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics approaches that question by examining the purpose of human action, the nature…
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What makes a society just? Plato’s The Republic begins with a seemingly simple question and turns it into a vast investigation of…
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The Tao Te Ching, traditionally associated with Laozi, is a short and highly compressed work of Chinese philosophy and spirituality. Rather than…
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