Brief Lives Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) Martin Jenkins looks at the life of an influential early political philosopher. Etienne de la Boétie is probably best known in the English-speaking world ...

Films The Truman Show Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is ...

Articles Descartes versus Cudworth On The Moral Worth of Animals Samuel Kaldas compares two views on the nature of animals and their implications for our moral responsibility towards them. “No one ...

Abdelkader Aoudjit reports on which beleaguered positions are still held After the Science Wars. The widely accepted view according to which the goal of science is to explain how things really are has ...

Articles Bertrand Russell Stalks The Nazis Thomas Akehurst on why Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is best known for his activities at the very ...

Articles Science, Ockham’s Razor & God David Glass and Mark McCartney say Ockham’s razor doesn’t cut it with God. The idea that science has explained God away is very popular. The suggestion is that ...

Articles Why Self-Interest Makes Relationships Valuable Daniel Tippens argues that our self-interestedness has a positive side after all. In Socrates’ culture of Fourth Century BCE Athens, if someone ...

Articles The Key Ideas of Western Philosophy John Greenbank searches history for answers to persistent questions. The history of philosophy must be understood as a series of serious intellectual and ...

Question of the Month What Is The Meaning Of Life? The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill ...

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 ...

Hegel & History Hegel’s Understanding of History Jack Fox-Williams outlines the basics of how history works for Hegel. One of Hegel’s most interesting but misunderstood areas of enquiry concerns ...

Articles Herder & Human Identity Brian King says that to understand the herd, you need a Herder. One question about human nature is whether it is the same for all people at all times, or whether it is ...