philosophy

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When he noticed people were taking the soap and skipping the sermon, he printed his beliefs on the label—30,000 words of ecstatic philosophy wedged alongside boasts about the product’s many uses: Tooth cleaning!

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The Air Force general represents an entirely different philosophy that has, it must be said, always existed in American life and must be acknowledged in any discussion of American exceptionalism: outright nihilism.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

After his 1989 speech to a large crowd in Heroes' Square, he went on to study liberal political philosophy briefly at Oxford.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Oddly, the exhibition’s contemporary pieces mostly ignore the Shaker philosophy of staying simple.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

It is not surprising that this concept was taken up so wholeheartedly in the sceptical philosophy of Hume.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton