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Is Homosexuality ‘Bad Faith’?
Terri Murray says that Jean-Paul Sartre was simply wrong about gay people and self-deception.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]
The Poet’s Metaphysical Role
Rilke thought that the point of poetry was to immortalize that which is transitory. Peter Rickman explains.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]
Philosophy & Humour
Is there a possible world in which the great philosophers became successful standup comedians instead? No, there isn’t, says Trevor Curnow – and he shows us why…
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Les Reid on sex, freedom and literature.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]
Is a Philosophical Ethics Possible?
Richard Taylor explains how ethical reasoning is like travelling up an escalator, and describes the difficulties of choosing between competing systems of ethics.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]
Memoir of a Jolly Junket in Search of Bishop Butler
Joseph Butler was an 18th century clergyman who left an indelible mark on moral philosophy but isn’t as widely remembered today as he deserves. David White scoured England and Ireland for traces of the man they called The Bishop.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]
Problems of Affluence in Morality
Do we have a duty to give to charity? Kevin Smith weighs up the possible responses to an ethical dilemma we’ve all faced at one time or another.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]
From Hume to Tillich: Teaching Faith & Benevolence
Nancy Bunge was taught philosophy by two of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers, Willard Quine and Paul Tillich. She remembers the profound effect of Tillich’s ideas.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]
‘The Open Society’ Revisited
Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]
The Atheist & the Foxhole
Catriona Hanley asks: Is God still dead?
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]
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