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Interview
Slavoj Žižek
In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’.
Socrates, Plato and Modern Life
Rediscovering Plato’s Vision
Mark Vernon sees Plato in an old light.
Socrates, Memory & The Internet
Matt Bluemink uses a Socratic argument to assess the influence of the net on our brains and our minds.
Embracing Imperfection: Plato vs Nussbaum On Love
Lillian Wilde contemplates what love means.
Socrates & Pre-Truth Politics
Spencer Klavan proclaims Socrates’ revolutionary answer to Nietzsche and Trump.
Articles
How Cubism Tried To Create A New Language
Stuart Greenstreet wonders why Cubist communication failed to catch on.
Democracy & the Unreasonable: Lessons from Rawls
Francisco Mejia Uribe asks if democracy can overcome fundamentalism.
To Connect Or Not To Connect?
Dana Andreicut wonders whether, or not, to escape into the Matrix.
The Experience Machine and Psychiatric Drugs
Emil Asplund & Erik Gustavsson try to find the truth about medication.
Robert Pirsig & His Metaphysics of Quality
Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)
Alistair MacFarlane considers the modes of life of a conservative philosopher.
Reviews
The Monk and the Philosopher by Jean-François Revel & Matthieu Ricard
Lachlan Dale explores some of the philosophical implications of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ecological Ethics by Patrick Curry
Vincent Di Norcia looks at various approaches to ecological ethics.
Elle
Terri Murray scrutinises a feminist film about a woman who desires her rapist. Warning: SPOILERS
Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938 by Martin Heidegger
Mahon O’Brien asks how far the first English translation of Martin Heidegger’s notebooks show him to be a Nazi.
Freedom’s Right by Axel Honneth
Peter Stone questions if it’s worthwhile trying to update Hegel’s politics without addressing his problems.
Everything
Kaya York experiences monism, mysticism, and Schopenhauerian ethics while playing David OReilly’s video game.
Regulars
Editorial: Socrates & Plato Now & Then
by Grant Bartley
News: October/November 2017
Philosophic Park: Beware of Intellectual Dinosaurs! • Robot Council jerks into motion • Scientists tamper with the stuff of life (again) — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Columns
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Philosophical Haiku: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
by Terence Green
The Street Philosopher: Pugnacious In The Punjab
Seán Moran considers holy war in Lahore.
Philosophy Then: Who Speaks For Socrates?
Peter Adamson finds Socrates speaking for everyone else.
Tallis in Wonderland: Time, Reciprocal Containment, & The Ouroboros
Raymond Tallis tries to fit everything in, in time.
Fiction
The Reverse Solipsist
Ray Liikanen overhears a modern-day Socratic dialogue.
