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The End: philosopher explains new climate-collapse musical using the allegory of Plato’s Cave

The End tells the story of a wealthy family who survived the collapse of the climate and civilisation in a bunker inside an abandoned mine.

Matthew Duncombe

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at it.

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument...

Ancient Greek philosophers used paradoxes for all sorts of reasons, from sharpening their dialectical skills and showing philosophical opponents...