Evil and Loneliness: Why You Should Do Philosophy with Friends

Lessons from Metaphysical Animals

Towards the end of last year, Robin and I started reading Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. Although it’s a cornerstone of modern philosophy, I found it met its reputation of being a painful and sometimes self-parodying read. Despite my commitment to understanding the text, I was not impressed. Heidegger claimed that the fundamental nature of a human’…