Articles What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.. It is often said that becoming a parent is a ...

The story of Russell’s philosophical account of the evils of German politics starts with the chaotic jingoism of the First World War. Prior to 1914, German scholarship had been widely respected in ...

Definition 1. A reality consists of the interactions of a particular thing with what ‘becomes’ for that thing.. Definition 2. Reality (with a capital R) consists of all realities.. Definition 3. The ...

Case Study. Mrs S., a retired M.D. who specialized in asthma and who was very well respected in her field, came to visit my private practice in Holland after she had attended one of my presentations ...

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 ...

Kierkegaard and Nietzsche inspired two similar types of thinking – phenomenology and existentialism. These differ in their interests and their style of questioning, but they are both anti-metaphysical ...

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 An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metaphysics Why Buridan’s Ass Doesn’t Starve Does free will exist? Michael Hauskeller reasons about reasons.. Imagine you go to a restaurant. Looking at the menu, you discover that they serve your two ...

Dear Socrates Dear Socrates Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he could ...