Philosophical Dictionary

Aristotle said contemplation was the highest life. Hannah Arendt said modernity killed it and replaced action with endless labor. Now we're trapped working and consuming instead of thinking or truly acting. Her 1958 book The Human Condition warned us: we became jobholders, not citizens or thinkers.

In this article, let's discuss 20th century thinker Walter Benjamin's insightful criticisms of technology as a means for creating fast-paced art, and its impact on art itself.

Edmund Gettier published two papers and one review in his career, and one three-page paper showed that a justified true belief can still miss knowledge. Sixty years later the problem has a new setting: feeds sorted for each of us. Does the filter bubble make lucky truths the norm, and what does the research say?

A  philosopher's toolkit for empowering critique of the powerful through the lens of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil." Though humor and satire you, too, can speak up, knowing everyday evil is only human.