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Thank you NielsBohr for your very deep, enlightening and balanced opinion about an author that you have not read.

About atheism I would recommend In Defence of Atheism by French philosopher Michel Onfray. Onfray has written dozens of books and that one sums up his ideas about religions and how, according to him, atheism should be like: not just a nihilism like for most of people today (not believing in God with...

you can learn about philosophy to subdue your ego or you can use philosophy to feed it. Yeah true, I agree. If Buddhist teaching is basically all about understanding that there is no such thing as an "ego", then those guys are missing the point indeed. I wouldn't criticize however our exc...

The word "Buddhism" alone doesn't mean anything, it's like "Greek thought"... There are so many schools of Buddhisms, some of which are more religious (like Pure Land: you just pray Amithaba and pronounce his name as much as possible to guarantee your seat in Paradise) and other ...

Hi Harry, Not sure there is a roadmap for this journey, but it seems to me that following a chronological order may help, as philosophers usually build theirs thoughts or systems on the ideas and concepts developed by previous thinkers. But there is neither a gate nor a path to start in philosophy, ...

Hi everyone, Thanks for the welcome messages! And sorry, I was running out of data for two weeks lol. Welcome to the forum! That's a pretty nice website you have there, and an original idea too. Do you mind if we link to it from the Philosophy Now main website? Wow thanks for asking, that would be l...

Hi, My name is Anthony, I have been living in the UK for nearly two years, and I discovered Philosophy Now just a few weeks ago. Great magazine, great website - just need to catch up with the previous issues and podcasts now :D Quickly about me, I have been working in the book industry for a few yea...