Philosophical Dictionary

Mindfulness began as a radical philosophical act — one that threatened the very idea of a stable, striving self. Corporate wellness kept the breathing exercises and removed everything that could destabilise anything. Byung-Chul Han's Burnout Society explains the mechanism, and why the capture was never hidden.

Adam Smith is quoted constantly and read almost never. The invisible hand appears three times in a lifetime of writing. He described landlords as those who reap where they never sowed. His first book was about sympathy, not self-interest. The popular Adam Smith was built by think tanks. Here is the real one.

Let's discuss Thomas Aquinas's just war theory. How can you tell if warfare is just? Can warfare be just by its nature?

Silicon Valley turned Stoicism into a productivity hack. But the philosophy's founder wanted to abolish private property — and its most famous figures were expelled and killed for being political threats. Here's what billionaires quote, what they skip, and why that gap is not accidental.

Palantir's 2026 manifesto celebrates cultural hierarchy and dismisses pluralism. But Nietzsche, the philosopher often associated with power and strength, spent years attacking nationalism as a "neurosis" and calling himself a "good European." What happens when Silicon Valley reads philosophy selectively.

In this article, we will talk about the modern history of animal rights, philosophical ideas of animals, and where we've gone in this subset of ethics.