Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK as we examine how Schopenhauer’s ideas are relevant (or not) in today’s society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. Picture early Nineteenth century Europe. Waterloo had been fought. The Revolution was dead. Millions had perished. Millions of acres neglected. As Durant so eloquently puts it,…
In this salon, Charlie Smart will explore vulnerability and its power to connect and ground us. Vulnerability may have the tired gloss of an of-the-moment cultural currency. Yet, it…
Welcome to the second salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache - she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share…
Interintellect Anwar AlKandari will lead an intimate discussion on solitude - how it affects our thinking process, mental state, and relationship with others. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” “Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to…
In this salon, debut host Tasshin Fogleman explores the highs and lows of collaboration. Scientific research, political movements, films, Broadway musicals, and even the humble neighborhood block party all require collaboration. Good collaboration results something greater, more beautiful and more beneficial than any one person could create on their own. Bad collaboration results in headaches,…
When was the last time you felt enthusiastic about living life? Is the world a dangerous place? Or is it ripe with pleasures to be discovered? How we grew up experiencing pleasure affects how we determine self-worth. A healthy integration of our sub-personalities, an abundance mindset, and a strong sense of havingness are central to…
Interintellect host Linus Lu continues his series all about classical music by exploring the relationship between classical music and the spaces in which it is heard. In this salon, we explore how and where we listen to music. More so than perhaps other art forms, music can switch contexts. While we usually read books in relative silence and…
Join Eyal Shay for a creative pursuit of reimagining societal structures and modes of transaction. In the beginning there was trust. Bands of Homo sapiens relied on internal trust-based bonds for surviving and thriving. Then came simple trade, followed by common currency, or money. Money allowed people to leave behind the paradigm of gifting with…
Interintellect Maybe Gray and special guest Qiaochu Yuan invite you to explore the interconnections between the experience of envy and the concept of evil. Sometimes we recognize that we have…
In the second salon of a mini-series on urban life, Judit Petho leads an exploration of the places we will inhabit in the decades to come If you were suddenly transported to a city in 2040, what would you see? Flying cars? Red smoke filling the air like in San Francisco last year? Elevated green…
In his debut salon, venture capitalist Roy Bahat explores the present state of labor organizing -- covering a little bit of history as context and then discussing different approaches at work today, union and otherwise. This will be a broad overview, to explore possible topics for future salons. Most of the focus will be on…
Podcaster, writer, and editor, Nigel Warburton discusses Public Philosophy A chance to discuss what public philosophy is, why it matters, and how best to do it. Nigel Warburton is the main interviewer for the very popular Philosophy Bites podcast which he makes with David Edmonds and which has had more than 42 million episode downloads. He is the…
