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Love
Love is all around: we love our partners, our family, our pets, our possessions, ourselves; we love food, music, games, activities, knowledge, beauty. We even love love itself. But for such an omnipresent feeling, if that’s indeed what it is, it is a
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New Philosopher
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New Philosopher Back Issues
Missing any of New Philosopher back issues? Get your copy of one of the back issues still in stock, from ‘Health’ to ‘Space’. Back issues delivered worldwide, with free shipping to Australia. Some back issues are sold out (issues 1-6, 12, 15) howe
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Contributors
DBC Pierre won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Vernon God Little, which was also awarded the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003 – the first time the two awards had been granted to the same book. Pierre is also the author of Ludmilla’s Broken En
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Types Of Love
While English has many words for hate – despise, loath, detest, abhor, etc. – for well over a thousand years, English speakers have made do with just one word for love (starting with the Old English lufian). We use the same word to describe how we fe
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Platonic Love?
A few philosophers are famous enough that their names become everyday adjectives – but not always in a way that fits what the philosopher believed. Epicurus, for instance, was no ‘epicurean;’ he taught freedom from pain and fear, not love of food and
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No Love Lost
The Weimar Republic rose from the ashes of the German Empire following the end of World War I. A federal constitutional republic, the new state was supposed to be a neutral space in which the highly charged politics of inter-war Germany could be carr
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To Love Or Not To Love?
Patriotism, according to Leo Tolstoy, is nothing more than an illusion foisted upon the powerless by the powerful. Without it, rulers would be unable to convince the ruled to accept all manner of things that benefit the former at the expense of the l
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Reasons Of Love
Here’s a fun little thought-experiment, derived from the work of Ernest Gellner. Try jotting down a list of all the things you love about your partner, if you have one. (If you don’t, try to picture your perfect beloved. If you’re just not into roman
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No Adultery Is Bloodless
In the TV series Game of Thrones, one scene resonates for its emotional brutality. Queen Cersei is accused of adultery, incest, and regicide. As punishment, the Faith of the Seven, a fundamentalist cult that has seized control of the city, forces her
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Love Stats
Polygyny, when a man has more than one wife at the same time, is permissable legally and culturally in some countries around the world. Polyandry, the practice of a woman having more than one husband at the one time, is now illegal in virtually every
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The Honeycake Horse
Love! Applicable to deities, people, life, sports, and pizza. Featuring a range of vibrant states, including: attraction, affection, infatuation, passion, divinity, attachment, bliss, contentment, compulsion, companionship, heartache, torment, hyster
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Strangers In Love
When I spotted my husband, he was talking to a pre-schooler. My first thought was that we’d have to abort our little game: pretending I don’t know the man I live with is one thing; doing it in front of an audience is ludicrous. I resented him for mak
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Nietzsche Tries Speed Dating
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On Love
Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental, since it will lead intelligent people to seek knowledge, in order to find out how to benefit those whom they love. But if people are not intelligent, they will be co
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The Depth Of Human Love
As I type these words, my son and daughter are aged eight and six years old respectively.They’re running around the garden, screaming and laughing and pretending to be various animals – a cat, a dog, a dragon – while I try to focus on the crawl of ty
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Love
“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.” Albert Camus “The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.” Confucius “Be loving, and you will never want for love.” Dinah Craik “Love only has ever been, is,
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The Larger Idea Of Love
The idea of love is, of course, deeply precious to us – it’s the name we give to our most emotionally invested, generous, tender, complex and (at times) most bruising relationships with other people. Our love for a partner, for our child or for a par
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Love Letters
MY BELOVED ANGEL, I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them. I can no longer think of nothing but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.
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Seeking Love
I recently attended a wedding where the groom told a story of his and his new wife’s lives over almost a decade. The times when they almost met, but didn’t. The time when he – an Australian – was performing in a London pub with his future wife in the
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The Narcissism Epidemic
Zan Boag: I read in the preface to the paperback edition of your book The Narcissism Epidemic that you had written the book before Twitter had got going. It’s quite easy to have a look at the current environment and talk about narcissism online, but
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NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY Inventory
1) A. I have a natural talent for influencing people. B. I am not good at influencing people. 2) A. Modesty doesn’t become me. B. I am essentially a modest person. 3) A. I would do almost anything on a dare. B. I tend to be a fairly cautious person
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Love As A Gift Economy
It’s old news that compulsory monogamy is the mating system of the capitalist patriarchy. Friedrich Engels and Bertrand Russell both made the case for this connection between economics and the way we arrange our intimate relationships. So have many o
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Echo and Narcissus
Famous throughout all the Aonian cities, Tiresias gave faultless answers to people who consulted him. Dusky Liriope, the Naiad, was the first to test the truth and the accuracy of his words, whom once the river-god Cephisus clasped in his winding str
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Love
1. An intense feeling of deep affection; 2. A feeling of deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone; 3. Affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one’s behalf; 4. A formula for ending an affectionate letter; 5. A personified figure of love, of
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Love, Objectively
Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish philosopher known for his cryptic pronouncements on art and history – “where we see the appearance of a chain of events, [the Angel of History] sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of r
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Love And Marriage
On July 21, 1913, Franz Kafka took to his diary to list the pros and cons of getting married. He was hopelessly in love with Felice Bauer at the time and suffering the throes of an existential agony over his future. Kafka would eventually pen some 50
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Love
Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings; I have used it purposely, as I wish to include them all. Love as an emotion – which is what I am speaking about, for love ‘on principle’ does not seem to me genuine – moves between two poles: on one
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Understanding Love
Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work ranges widely over topics in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. Before moving to Chapel Hill, Wolf taught at Harvard Univer
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Love’s Philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?— See the mounta
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Museum of Art & Philosophy
Australia’s first non-fungible token (NFT) gallery, the Museum of Art & Philosophy (MAP), run by New Philosopher, is open in Hobart, Australia. MAP is the first NFT physical gallery in the South Hemisphere, and the second NFT physical gallery in the
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On Love
That you should be made a fool of by a young woman, why, it is many an honest man’s case. - The Pirate. My aim is to comprehend that passion, of which every sincere development has a character of beauty. There are four kinds of love. 1. Passion-l
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Language Shapes Us
I remember those first weeks sitting around the lunch table with my adopted Cusceñan Peruvian family: José, Emma, and their four daughters. Unfamiliar sounds ricocheted back and forth, blasting holes in my self-confidence and bringing on an existenti
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Our Library
In my time and place, the social role of romantic love – a composite image that emerges from the overlaying of all our cultural representations, norms, and narratives – builds in some features that are causing harm and need to change. I’ve reviewed j
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You Must Remember This
My memory has always frustrated me. Reaching into my past is like playing that carnival game where you manoeuvre a metal claw around a glass chamber filled with trinkets and toys, trying, almost always in vain, to drag out a treasure. When one of my
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Documentaries
This is the story of one single day in one British city and the births, deaths and marriages that take place in one 24-hour period. Sue Bourne and her team set out to show that as we all go about our daily lives on any particular day in exactly the s
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Around The Web
We crave romantic love like nothing else, we’ll make unimaginable sacrifices for it and it can take us from a state of ecstasy to deepest despair. But what’s going on inside our heads when we fall in love? The American anthropologist Helen Fisher des
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Bence Nanay
In conversation with Zan Boag What is your demon? The temptation to take myself too seriously. What is the most important part of your education? My education is still ongoing. The most important part is hopefully still ahead of me. What do yo
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The Highest Good
“He who, guided by emotion only, endeavours to cause others to love what he loves himself, and to make the rest of the world live according to his own fancy, acts solely by impulse, and is, therefore, hateful, especially, to those who take delight in

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