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Bookazine
The Ultimate Guide to Existentialism
A collection of the best past articles from Philosophy Now on existentialism, the ever-relevant philosophical movement of Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir. The Ultimate Guide to Existentialism is divided into five chapters: Foundations; Freedom; Culture; Ethics; and Time, Death & The Absurd. A valuable and entertaining introduction to the key concepts and the main thinkers.
Irish Philosophy
Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy
Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.
Irish Philosophy & Me
Catherine Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.
Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform
Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.
Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics
Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.
Regulars
Editorial: Land of Saints & Scholars
by Tim Madigan
News: February/March 2024
News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
How to Have a Good Life
Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca’s account of the good life is really practical.
A Philosophical History of Transhumanism
John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.
Hume’s Problem of Induction
Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.
Towards Love
George Mason on love as shared identity.
The Philosophy of Work
Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Dogs
by Matt Qvortrup
Philosophical Haiku: G.E. Moore (1873-1958)
by Terence Green
The Art of Living: The Discipline of Assent
Massimo Pigliucci tells us to stop impulsively judging.
Tallis in Wonderland: Cogito, Ergo Sum?
Raymond Tallis has a long-postponed meeting with M. Descartes.
Reviews
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
Leonid Bilmes considers the problems we face if we assume our theories match reality.
Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins
Stephen Anderson is sad about modern writings on love.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism.
Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
Thomas R. Morgan hears more than silence.
Fiction