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Neel Burton

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    • The Big Questions
    • Ataraxia
      • Mental Health
      • Self-Deception
      • Emotions
      • Relationships
      • Cognition
      • Success & Failure
    • Ancient Wisdom
      • Mythology
      • The Odyssey
      • Socrates
      • Plato
      • Aristotle
      • Rhetoric
      • Stoicism
      • Indian Philosophy
      • German Philosophy
    • Wine & Blind Tasting
    • All Essays (Index Scriptorum)
  • About
    • About Neel
    • The Ataraxia series
      • Series introduction
      • The Meaning of Madness
      • Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
      • Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
      • For Better For Worse: Essays on Sex, Love, Marriage, and More
      • Hypersanity
      • The Art of Failure
    • The Ancient Wisdom series
      • Series introduction
      • The Meaning of Myth
      • The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
      • Stoic Stories
      • Indian Mythology and Philosophy
      • Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy
      • How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero
      • The German Greeks
      • Plato’s Shadow
    • The Secret to Everything
    • Growing from Depression
    • The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting
    • Acheron Press
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The Big Questions

On this page, I bring together my positions on some of the traditional big questions of philosophy, alongside a few that ought to be counted among them.

Some positions are more original than others.

Existence

God

The Problem of Evil

Free Speech

Language and Thought

History of Ideas

Truth

Education

The Self

Free Will (coming soon)

Immortality

The Meaning of Life

Happiness

Political Philosophy

Cosmopolitanism

Wine

The deepest truths often emerge where disciplines meet.
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Ancient Wisdom Book 1

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The Gang of Three

Ancient Wisdom Book 3

Ancient Wisdom Book 4

Indian Mythology and Philosophy book cover

Ancient Wisdom Book 5

Ancient Wisdom Book 6

Ancient Wisdom Book 7

Ancient Wisdom Unnumbered

Ataraxia Book 1

Ataraxia Book 2

Ataraxia Book 3

Ataraxia Book 4

Ataraxia Book 5

Ataraxia Book 6

The Secret to Everything

Growing from Depression

Wine & Blind Tasting

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