analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

Love Is a Verb

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analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

sequences of articles gathered around a more focused idea

  • love is about betterment 24 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Love is about betterment. Love, in the ancient Greek world, is not about sacrifice but eudaemonia: Diotima shows Socrates that love is a ki...
  • romantic friendships 24 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Romantic Friendships and Their Unique Dynamics: there is nothing essential or inevitable about the ways we conceive of romantic relationshi...
  • singleness and the pandemic dating recession 1 Mar 2025 [marginalium] The Coronavirus pandemic in the US represented a fundamental challenge to casual dating and to romantic relationship formation. The How Coup...
  • the neuroscience of heartbreak 27 Nov 2024 [marginalium] The neuroscience of heartbreak. Bit silly, and as usual more of a psychology thing than a neuroscience thing, but fun. Most interesting part...
  • the myth of the loneliness epidemic 27 Nov 2024 [marginalium] The Myth Of The Loneliness Epidemic. Contra my article on the loneliness epidemic. They pose the question: Alarms over the state of America...
  • the horizon of desire 11 Oct 2024 [marginalium] The Horizon Of Desire. Thoughtful piece on the benefits gained out of our recent fraught attempts at developing new narratives around sex an...
  • a touching suicide pact? 10 Aug 2024 [marginalium] A touching suicide pact? Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died in a suicide pact. Here, their daughters reflect on their parents’ plan - and th...
  • on turing's 1952 chatgpt 21 Jul 2024 [marginalium] On Turing’s 1952 ChatGPT
  • one friend in one month 19 Jul 2024 [marginalium] One Friend In One Month: cute, if sad essay about how hard it is to make friends in the modern era. I’d resigned myself to a life of catch-...
  • the adoption paradox 12 Jul 2024 [marginalium] Adoption is predicated on transacting the life of a child. Interesting reflection by an adoptee on the psychology of adopting and being adop...
  • why do we listen to sad songs 1 Sep 2023 [marginalium] Why Do We Listen to Sad Songs? Maybe because it makes us feel connected to others.
  • how zoom changes conversation 2 Aug 2023 [marginalium] How zoom changes conversation: The researchers hypothesized that something about the scant 30- to 70-millisecond delay in Zoom audio disrup...
  • the reassuring fantasy of the baby advice industry 25 Apr 2023 [marginalium] The reassuring fantasy of the baby advice industry: People have been dispensing baby-rearing guidance in written form almost since the begi...
  • the honesty of pornography 20 Mar 2023 [marginalium] The honesty of pornography. The last paragraph: All of this is to say that pornography is remarkably honest, and not simply because, as ant...
  • on ‘romantic friendship’ 24 Feb 2023 [marginalium] On ‘romantic friendship’: Murdoch’s own account of love. In The Sovereignty of the Good (1970), she theorised that love is vision perfected...
  • on the value of nurture 18 Feb 2023 [marginalium] On the value of nurture. “Exploring how different brain states accompany different life stages, Gopnik also makes a case that caring for the...
  • the tyranny of the female-orgasm industrial complex 8 Feb 2023 [marginalium] The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex: I surprised myself with the ire that bubbled up over the course of writing this essay...
  • social media and teenage mental health 7 Jan 2023 [marginalium] Social media and teenage mental health. Estimates indicate high-speed wireless internet significantly increased teen girls’ severe mental h...
  • the gossip trap 6 Dec 2022 [marginalium] The gossip trap: How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it. Interesting enough exploration of our ‘silent years’—the hug...
  • not new, but the crisis of masculinity 16 Nov 2022 [marginalium] Not new, but the crisis of masculinity. Ambition doesn’t just happen; it has to be fired. The culture is still searching for a modern mascu...

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