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 ...

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 Dead Bored: Debord’s Dead! Andrew Hussey on the death of a turbulent thinker. All followers of pop culture will know that 1994 was a good year for death: not on a par with 1969-70 (Jim, Jim, ...

Articles Neo’s Choice: Truth versus Happiness in Fear and Trembling by Joel McCrum In the recent film The Matrix Neo, the protagonist, is offered a choice between what is revealed to be everyday ...

War & Peace Pacifism Is Not Passivism Duane Cady tells us why pacifism isn’t sitting back and letting the masters of war have their way. Pacifism rarely gets taken seriously due to a widespread ...

Articles The Gods of Spinoza & Teilhard de Chardin Derek Harrison compares radically alternative visions of the absolute. “I saw eternity the other night. Like a great ring of pure and endless light.” ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘ A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef ’, an ...

John Holroyd negotiates a middle way between these two much-lauded figures. Richard Dawkins makes so many claims in The God Delusion (2009) that I have decided to select just two for consideration.

Articles Nietzsche and the Problem of Suffering Van Harvey on the metaphysical aspects of an anti-metaphysical philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche shared at least one fundamental concern with the ...

Articles Irrefutable Ethics Richard Taylor on the intractable beliefs people hold about how we should behave. Given the certitude with which people proclaim a certain class of beliefs one would think ...

Articles A Can of Tomato Juice in the Sea Alejandra Mancilla uses an example from Robert Nozick to question the claims to ownership made by breeders of genetically modified organisms. John Locke’s ...

Articles The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond 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 ...