There was a time when I genuinely admired human beings. Their ingenuity. Their spirit to overcome challenges. Their focus on improving their own and other creatures’ lives. Was. Past tense. Recent years and especially the last one taught me differently. I am writing these lines in March 2021. We are over a year deep into [...]
Who cares about love when you can have philosophy instead? What is even better? Philosophy and law. I know it. You know it. Everybody loves it. There you go. Love is in the air and these words as well. Behold, February 14 marks the death of the legal scholar and philosopher Ronald Dworkin who died [...]
“What is love? Oh baby, don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me, no more.” Contrary to all expectation, these undying words were not written by perhaps the most famous French philosopher of all time. Today we are not talking about Haddaway, but René Descartes, who set out on his last journey on the waves of the [...]
Without him, the world was missing an important piece. His legacy shall never be forgotten. We would live in a quite different world, if not for his contributions to philosophy, political theory and real-world politics. A prolific writer, wonderful essayist and, one could argue, the intellectual father of the United States of America. Today, February [...]
Some people spend their lives searching for the perfect mocha recipe. Others are destined to create the perfect cup of tea (it is a combination of Assam tea, cloves, cinnamon, pepper and coconut milk, do not look any further). Martin Buber had different things in mind though. Born on the 8th of February in 1878 [...]
