Joe Humphreys
Assistant News Editor at Irish Times
Irish Times journalist, author & producer of @IrishTimes Unthinkable philosophy column #andacyclist. 42 is not the meaning of life but what is?
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3 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Humphreys
I’ve been staring at a skull for the past month in the hope it positively transforms my life. Not constantly staring at it, I hasten to add. But I’ve placed the plaster-cast cranium that normally gets taken out of storage once a year at Halloween in a prominent spot on my desk so I can see those dark eye-sockets facing me in daily judgment. This is my attempted cure for procrastination.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Humphreys
Bono has got plenty of abuse over a 40-year career straddling pop and politics. So the heat he has been feeling over his stance, or lack of stance, over Israel-Palestine must come as no surprise. The role the U2 frontman played in Northern Ireland politics featured in the recent BBC series Simon Schama’s Story of Us in which the British historian also examined the pressure put on Seamus Heaney to take sides in the Troubles.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Humphreys
When you picture a philosopher, what do you see? A guy with a beard. Maybe looks a bit Greek? Or French, with a cigarette in one hand and an espresso in the other? Wrong! So Leo Tolstoy would say. The Russian writer behind epic novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace spent years searching for the meaning of life in academic works. But the highbrow discourse of the intelligentsia left him cold. Instead, he reckoned the real philosophers were ordinary people – peasants, as they were called in his time.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Humphreys
Easter Sunday celebrates the raising of Jesus from the dead after his crucifixion. The occasion marks the promise of life after death for us and our loved ones. That may seem unlikely from a scientific viewpoint. However, those who reject the idea of afterlife are, globally speaking, a clear minority.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Humphreys
One of many disturbing aspects of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine is how little the huge number of Russian casualties weighs upon the mind of President Vladimir Putin. Data analysed by the BBC estimates that more than 95,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the first three years of the invasion.
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Pope Francis vs Jordan Peterson: Two types of self-help (from the @IrishTimesOpEd #Unthinkable archives) https://t.co/VsvrYXnJ4g https://t.co/J2W3LsC6pS
Three things we give up when we turn away from Catholicism. Reposting for the day that's in it RIP #PopeFrancis https://t.co/bXKhaAUUak https://t.co/YEntgCaMhd
Down with postmodernism and its capitalist agents! Today's #Unthinkable #philosophy column with Prof John Divers @TCDphilosophy on Zuckerberg, 'epistemological anarchy' & objective truth https://t.co/RtLyDpzGnO