We like to think we see the world as it is. We don’t. We see a version of it, filtered through invisible assumptions we inherited from our culture, our teachers, our moment in history. The philosopher Thomas Kuhn spent his career pointing out this uncomfortable truth: we’re all trapped inside paradigms—ways of seeing—that feel like […]
Thomas Kuhn Was Right: Your Worldview is a Prison You Can’t See Out Of Read More »
Business schools teach optimization. They teach market analysis, financial modeling, supply chain efficiency, and strategic planning. They train students to break problems into manageable pieces, to quantify everything that can be quantified, and to make decisions based on measurable outcomes. This approach has built empires and created enormous wealth. It has also, increasingly, created enormous
Why Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World Must Be Required Reading for MBAs Read More »
When you wake up to find your lawn wet in the morning, you probably assume it rained overnight. You don’t immediately suspect a colossal ice cube with legs stomped through your neighborhood. This instinct to reach for the simpler explanation is so natural that we barely notice it. But what if this tendency isn’t wisdom
Is Occam’s Razor Just Intellectual Laziness in Disguise? Read More »
In the turbulent aftermath of the French Revolution, as Europe grappled with the ruins of old certainties and the promise of new ones, a strange figure emerged from the intellectual salons of Paris. Auguste Comte, a mathematician turned philosopher, would propose something so audacious it still seems fantastical today: a complete religion, with all the
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Two of history’s most influential philosophers separated by nearly two millennia offer radically different answers to one of humanity’s most enduring questions: What does it mean to live excellently? Aristotle, the systematic Greek thinker who tutored Alexander the Great, championed a balanced, socially integrated path to human flourishing. Friedrich Nietzsche, the iconoclastic German philologist writing
Nietzsche vs. Aristotle: Whose Vision of Excellence Wins? Read More »
In a modest room in the Netherlands, a French philosopher sat by his stove and contemplated the nature of thought itself. The year was 1637, and René Descartes was about to publish a work that would inadvertently lay the conceptual groundwork for the artificial intelligence revolution (AI) that would unfold nearly four centuries later. While
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The question if machines can truly think has haunted us since the first computers began solving mathematical problems at speeds that put human calculators to shame. Today, as artificial intelligence systems write poetry, diagnose diseases, and engage in conversations that can fool us into thinking we’re talking to another person, the question feels more urgent
When David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739, he expected to revolutionize philosophy. Instead, the book, as he later lamented, “fell dead-born from the press.” Yet this initial failure masked what would become one of the most profound intellectual earthquakes in Western thought. Nearly three centuries later, Hume’s ideas continue to reverberate
Hume’s Intellectual Legacy: The 18th-Century Shock That Still Echoes Read More »
In 1795, amidst Europe’s revolutionary war and the looming threat of Napoleon, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant published a concise treatise that would resonate through the ages. “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” introduced a groundbreaking concept for its era: a systematic framework aimed at eradicating war altogether. Over two centuries later, following two devastating world
Can Immanuel Kant’s ‘Perpetual Peace’ Stop the Next World War? Read More »
The saying often attributed to Voltaire—“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”—has become a cornerstone of Western thought on free expression. Although Voltaire never actually wrote these words, they encapsulate an Enlightenment ideal that has influenced constitutional frameworks, particularly in Europe and North America.
Exporting Enlightenment: Why Voltaire’s Free Speech Vision Doesn’t Translate Globally Read More »
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