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Philosophy & Theory Roundup - November 21, 2025

By Mona Mona · Philosophy Publics · · 4 min read

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  • Dune (franchise) 13 min read

    The article opens with a reference to the Butlerian Jihad in the context of AI and resurrecting dead loved ones. This fictional crusade against thinking machines from Frank Herbert's Dune universe provides rich philosophical context for discussions about humanity's relationship with artificial intelligence.

  • Ring of Gyges 10 min read

    The article mentions 'Gyges' ring, the face and the Other in Levinas' - this ancient thought experiment from Plato's Republic about invisibility and moral behavior is foundational to ethical philosophy and connects to the themes of surveillance and being seen discussed in multiple pieces.

  • Emmanuel Levinas 12 min read

    Referenced in the piece about 'Seeing Without Being Seen' connecting Gyges' ring to Levinas's concept of the Other and the face. Levinas's ethical philosophy about responsibility to the Other provides deep context for several articles touching on relationships, recognition, and moral obligation.

ROUNDUP

  1. Maybe we need a Butlerian Jihad after all (269 likes): AI won’t bring your dead loved ones back. By in Commonplace Philosophy.

  2. Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance (13 likes): In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure. By in Radical Books Collective.

  3. 148. Loneliness (extended) (5 likes). By in Overthink Podcast.

  4. Reader, He Didn’t Study Me (71 likes): A quiet letter to the one that didn’t flinch at the draft. By in Helen Higgins.

  5. If you learn how to win, you need to learn when to stop. (76 likes): Virtues need virtues to stay virtues. By and in Mini Philosophy.

  6. Every Project Is a Tragedy (1 likes). By in Ellis’s Substack.

  7. Nancy Sherman (12 likes): Philosophy teaches us not only intellectual competence, but also healthy emotions and healthy relationships. By and in Why Philosophy?.

  8. The Agony of Jealousy (43 likes): “one of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it” -George Eliot. By in Julian de Medeiros.

  9. The power of the state (33 likes): And how to take (some of) it away. Right now. By in The Pavement.

  10. Reasons to be hopeful (16 likes): The fluidity of social norms and common sense. By in The Existential Reader.

  11. Schopen Hour (4 likes): A recording from a live reading of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Studies on Pessimissm. By in Theory Gang.

  12. Twelve Questions For Spinoza, pt 3 (2 likes): How are we empowered? Feel better about ourselves? Feel better about the world? By in Philosophy As Therapy.

  13. Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman in Love: Lecture 10, Intimate Relationships (5 likes): Why Beauvoir thinks love doesn’t mean the same thing to men and women. By in Intimate Reltionships.

  14. Externalities, Rights, and the Problem of Knowledge (18 likes): On the Difficulty of Designing a System of Rights. By in The Archimedean Point.

  15. Privacy as Jihad (24 likes): A discipline to protect the human principle from algorithmic colonization. By in The Cyber Hermetica.

  16. The Method in Hegel’s Self-Censorship (12 likes): How to read Hegel’s system vs. his method. Self-censorship and philosophy (Part II). By in Daniel’s Journal.

  17. Revisiting the Philosophical Case for Bitcoin (1 likes): An

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