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Nietzsche Reloaded Nietzsche’s Übermensch: A Hero of Our Time? Eva Cybulska dispells popular misconceptions about this controversial figure. “Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Übermensch – a ...
I think we can assume that what Zarathustra whispered in her ear was the thought of Eternal Recurrence, and that it was this to which she replied, “O Zarathustra, You know that?”She is correct in one ...
Articles The Allegory of the Alien Invasion Lisa Kretz asks: How would you feel if it were you?. It finally happened. You know all those folks claiming UFO sightings? Some of them were on to something ...
Richard Baron tries to be good in government. This article considers some of the ethical questions that arise in the conduct of government, in the light of two leading approaches to ethics. The two ...
Articles Socratic Humility Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy. “Gentlemen of Athens, I am far from making a defence now on my own behalf, as you might think ...
Once a year in mid-July the city of Durham abandons its habitual reserve and becomes the scene of the Durham Miners’ Gala. This year the gala coincided with another meeting of labourers who spend most ...
Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933.Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.. One night in ...
According to Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, art is a product of the dynamic conflict between two elements at work in culture: the Dionysian and Apollonian.He drew these terms from the names of the ...
Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. Zombies & Philosophy The Zombie Threat to a Science of Mind Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness.. For the ...
Roger Caldwell finds philosophy & poetry to be mutually alien. Unveiling Verse. In a somewhat tongue-in-cheek contribution, Simon Blackburn asks whether analytical philosophers are equipped to read ...
Tallis in Wonderland You Chemical Scum, You Raymond Tallis engages with the dregs of philosophy.. I am sick of being insulted. There seems to be a competition among some contemporary thinkers to dream ...
I am, but it isn’t just coffee table books that go unread. Take big best-sellers, classics; people buy them but nobody really reads them either. For example take John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice – I ...