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You can love an AI but can it love you back? Philosophy has the answer

We often speak of loving things like a cosy sweater or new camera. But this talk is not generally taken literally. It’s a kind of emotional shorthand. We use it to express our fondness for precious objects.

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Quote of the Day by Simone de Beauvoir: The woman who taught the world about gender equality — “Equality is not achieved when women become like men, but when every person is...” A timeless lesson on why equal opportunity, not gender roles, drives human freedom, progress, and social growth

Quote of the Day by Simone de Beauvoir: Simone de Beauvoir's message remains powerful today. Gender equality grows when opportunity is shared, not restricted. Societies advance when talent matters more than labels. Equal opportunity unlocks innovation, leadership, and human potential. Real freedom begins when women and men can pursue their…

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De Beauvoir’s 1960s heroine shows little has changed since

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent. But on the journey inside her mind and life, we get a good account of how…

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The Inseparables review – friendship falters in an impassioned Simone de Beauvoir adaptation

Young adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir’s unpublished story from the 1950s

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‘You’re covered in wrinkles. You’re no longer interesting’: the books making ageing women visible

A handful of new Australian novels feature women getting older in a culture that would prefer it happened out of sight

The Guardian - AU

The Visionaries review – seers who were shaped by the shadow of war

Wolfram Eilenberger’s group biography of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil illuminates how the horrors of the 1930s informed the philosophers’ worldviews – with the ‘saintly’ Weil the star of the show

The Guardian - UK

The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger review – four women who changed the world

The complicated lives and questing minds of Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil

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A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The Guardian - UK

The Patriarchs by Angela Saini review – the roots of male domination

A scientific and historical survey of patriarchy shows that there’s nothing inevitable about it

The Guardian - UK

Sex, lies and Hegel: did the intimate lives of philosophers shape their ideas?

How did the intimate lives of major philosophers shape their ideas? Did their closest relationships with families, spouses, life partners and secret lovers influence their philosophies?

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