Life doesn’t always make sense. What looks like an obvious solution isn’t always optimal for a peaceful existence. For example, trying to be happy makes you miserable. Why? Because the harder you try ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Theodore McDarrah writes about practical philosophy for leaders. The Hague, NETHERLANDS: TO GO WITH AFP STORY ...

If I ever created a word cloud of everything I discuss with leaders in our coaching sessions, the largest word would undoubtedly be "balance." The higher leaders climb on the corporate ladder, the ...

Interestingly, Zeno’s paradoxes are recounted by Aristotle in his Physics. Although he dismissed them as examples of specious reasoning, the very fact that he recorded them is indirect evidence that ...

Paradoxical and incomplete: The pontificate of Pope Francis can be summed up in these two words. Only time will tell whether his leadership has given a permanent new direction to the Church; whether ...

Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics.

Although the concept of the common good has been subject to normative theorising for millennia, it is now widely understood as an "essentially contested concept," leading scholars to argue that, in ...