Bearing: Season One
A public philosophy series on finitude, death, suffering, hope, conviction, love, goodness, and wisdom.
- First title: Finitude: Living with Limits, Choice, and the Unfinished Life
Author
Jie Chen
Jie Chen holds a PhD in philosophy from Peking University and lives in Canada. Chen’s work moves between systematic philosophy and public philosophy, seeking to bring philosophical seriousness back into the ordinary conditions of human life.
Author of the first-season public philosophy programme published by Onward Philosophy Press.
Series
Six First-Season Series
Each series is a readable path through a public philosophical problem.
The Human After AI: Season One
A public philosophy series on human judgment, work, education, truth, freedom, loneliness, and love after AI.
- First title: AI Is Not a Person: Why Performance Is Not Personhood
Education for Becoming Human: Season One
A public philosophy series on education as the formation of judgment, attention, reading, language, freedom, and discipline.
- First title: Children Are Not Projects: Education Without Possession, Anxiety, or Control
Persons in Relationship: Season One
A public philosophy series on loneliness, intimacy, recognition, family, forgiveness, and living with others.
- First title: Loneliness Is Not Failure: Living with What Cannot Be Fully Shared
The Limits of Work: Season One
A public philosophy series on work, burnout, efficiency, achievement, rest, and human worth beyond the job.
- First title: Work Is Not Your Whole Worth: Becoming Yourself Beyond the Job
Civilization’s Future: Season One
A public philosophy series on technology, space, non-human life, responsibility, and civilizational self-limitation.
- First title: The Human in the Cosmic Age: Responsibility When the World Is No Longer Only Earth
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