Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago. “Have the courage to use your own reason!”, (in Latin sapere aude!) is the battle ...

Articles Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword Mike Alder explains why mathematicians and scientists don’t like philosophy but do it anyway. As a mathematician, I take care not to be caught doing philosophy.

Articles An Amoral Manifesto (Part II) Our longtime Moral Moments columnist Joel Marks concludes his special column explaining why he’s abandoning morality. In the last issue of Philosophy Now I ...

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 ...

Ways of Knowing Analytic versus Continental Philosophy Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simone de Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity Charlotte Moore freely subjects de Beauvoir’s ethics to a discerning scrutiny. In her 1947 book The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir outlines an ...

Plato Plato: A Theory of Forms David Macintosh explains Plato’s Theory of Forms or Ideas. For the non-philosopher, Plato’s Theory of Forms can seem difficult to grasp. If we can place this theory into ...

Articles Kant and the Thing in Itself Ralph Blumenau on why things may not be what they seem to be. Before Kant, philosophers had divided propositions into two kinds, under the technical names of ...

Heresy Phenomenology as a Mystical Discipline Colin Wilson explores the more provocative side of existentialism. In the following essay I propose to argue that Husserl’s phenomenology has been ...

Death Death in Classical Daoist Thought Bernard Down explains how two ancient Chinese philosophers explored new perspectives on matters of life and death. Daoism (or Taoism) is both a religion and a ...