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Ancient Greek Wisdom
The Tragedy That Was Athens
Alex Holzman sees the history of Golden Age Athens as a play with Pericles and Socrates as its tragic heroes.
Ancient Greek Wisdom
Fellowship For Aristotle & Tolkien
Andy Owen explains what Aristotle was tolkien about.
The Wisdom of Ignorance
Daniel Silvermintz wants us to rediscover the virtue of Socratic ignorance.
What Philosophy Does To Philosophers
Rohan Somji looks at the consequences of thinking for three antique thinkers.
A Stoic Response To The Climate Crisis
Matthew Gindin thinks that the Stoics have useful advice for us right now.
Regulars
Editorial: Greeks Bearing Gifts
by Rick Lewis
News: February/March 2020
Charred scrolls yield Philodemus’ notes • French philosophers debate their future • A ‘philosophical belief’ wins legal protection — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
An Essay on Nothing
Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.
Francis Fukuyama & the Perils of Identity
Peter Benson critiques a liberal but nationalistic brand of identity politics.
How To Change Your Mind
Steven Campbell-Harris tells us how philosophy can change thinking.
Immanuel Kant’s Globalization Program
Dan Corjescu looks at how Kant wanted to unite the world.
Kant’s Opus postumum
Terrence Thomson wrestles with Kant’s unfinished work to ask what we should expect from philosophy books.
Ambivalence
E.T. Urso has some philosophical ambivalence for us especially for Valentine’s Day.
Columns
Philosophical Haiku: Heraclitus (c.535-475 BCE)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: The Pleasure Principle
Peter Adamson takes pleasure in pondering ancient hedonism.
Street Philosopher: Destined In Delhi
Seán Moran contemplates kismet and choreography.
Tallis in Wonderland: Paying Attention to Attention
Raymond Tallis becomes aware that he can’t afford to ignore attention.
Reviews
I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux
Scott Parker looks at Sue Prideaux’s (armour) penetrating biography of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nihilism & Philosophy by Gideon Barker
Roger Caldwell scrutinises philosophical revolutions.
Probably Approximately Correct by Leslie Valiant
Joshua Schrier is approximately correct, probably.
Joker
Ștefan Bolea meditates on madness at the movies.
Fiction
Achilles and the Tortoise
by Peter Mullen
