Immanuel Kant Sapere Aude! Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago. “Have the courage to use your own reason!”, (in Latin ...

Omid Panahi finds that finding a solution is not the problem. The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment first devised by the Oxford moral philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967. In her paper titled ‘The ...

Hegel’s Classification of History. In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history.. The first of these is original ...

Being and Becoming. Professor Macann has just completed a vast philosophical project in four parts entitled Being and Becoming. 1,700 pages long and 26 years in the writing, its publishers hope it ...

Food for Thought The Basis of Morality Tim Madigan on scientific versus religious explanations of ethical behaviour. “A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal ...

It is clearly internet shopping, franchised fast food and surgically-enhanced boobs. No, this is not true. I think the only answer is to strip back every layer of the physical world, every learnt ...

Articles Søren Kierkegaard Jeff Mason on Kierkegaard’s three forms of life: the ethical, the aesthetic and the religious.. Why get up in the morning? Should we get up for ourselves, for others, or for ...

Articles Noam Chomsky on Institutional Stupidity In January Noam Chomsky received the Philosophy Now Award for fighting stupidity. Rick Lewis’s Introduction: Welcome to the 4th Philosophy Now Award ...

City, Liverpool John Moore, Swansea, Northampton ... once again university philosophy departments across Britain are closing or under threat. Peter Rickman makes the case for universities that educate ...

Heresy Phenomenology as a Mystical Discipline Colin Wilson explores the more provocative side of existentialism.. In the following essay I propose to argue that Husserl’s phenomenology has been ...

Continental Thoughts A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern ...

Clearly, thinking that a difference among people is relevant does not make it so. Even the discriminator knows that. Indeed, it would be unintelligible to disadvantage, say, black people, just because ...