Articles The Limits of Authenticity Ben G. Yacobi asks if it is possible to live authentically.. We are told: “To thine own self be true!” But what do we mean if we say that somebody is an authentic ...

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 ...

Articles A Philosophical History of Transhumanism John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.. Throughout our history, we human beings have been trying to transform ...

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 The Decline & Rebirth of Philosophy Daniel Kaufman sees philosophy ailing as a guide for Western culture, and considers how it might be revived.. Among the humanities, philosophy is ...

Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression. If you have a pessimistic philosophical outlook on the world then it makes sense that you would also feel ...

Articles Hegel on History Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history.. We are often taught that history is nothing but the record of past events. Yet Georg Wilhelm ...

Articles Does Western Philosophy Have Egyptian Roots? Peter Flegel highlights possible connections between early Greek philosophy and the ideas of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.. Just over a year ...

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 ...

Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces. I have in ...