Year: 2023

  • Robert Spaemann on Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Robert Spaemann on Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Robert Spaemann (1927–2018) is a German Catholic Philosopher who engaged in his political philosophy with an early critic of the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What are the arguments in this discussion?

  • What is Life? We know more, but the miracle deepens.

    What is Life? We know more, but the miracle deepens.

    How do living things maintain such impressive order and uniformity for generations in a universe that is, according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, constantly moving towards a state of disorder and chaos? All living things have five features in common: the cell, the gene, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry, and life as…

  • The Burning Man is drowning

    The Burning Man is drowning

    The event is known around the world: Burning Man. After a two year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Burning Man has returned to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada for its annual week-long event. Running from August 28th to September 4th, 2023, this year’s Burning Man has seen the largest crowds ever, with…

  • Meaning or Presence? Time in Contemporary Culture

    Meaning or Presence? Time in Contemporary Culture

    A new way of experiencing time is emerging in contemporary culture, influenced by globalization and technology. People seek to deepen and expand a sense of presence, and what fades away is a corner stone of modernity, the Cartesian subject: the expanded present challenges the idea of a subject who acts based on past experiences and…