Themed Articles

The Accents of Her Ruby Lips

Annina Lehmann argues that wearing lipstick is a choice which shows that though we’re influenced by society, we can still make decisions about who we want to be.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008]

The Full Revelation of the Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Birth of Deep Autobiography

Peter Abbs recounts how Rousseau undertook a psychological self-examination a century before psychoanalysis.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008]

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (II)

Eva Cybulska on Freud’s unconscious debt to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008]

The Blood of the 3,000

Jeffrey Gordon reflects on 9/11, and sees that it didn’t wake us.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008]

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (I)

Cathal Horan analyses Freud through the eyes of Hegel and Schopenhauer.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008]

Happiness, Virtue and Tyranny

Matthew Pianalto looks at the difference between psychological and philosophical concepts of happiness.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008]

Plato is my dog, yo!: Dogs, Love and Truth

Jeremy Barris enlists the help of Plato, Ortega and pragmatist philosophy to argue that love at its deepest is our connection with ultimate truth, and that this connection is found in our love for our dogs.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008]

“I knew him by his voice”: Can Animals Be Our Friends?

Stephen Clark examines how far Aristotle’s concept of friendship might apply to animals, among themselves and between us and them.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008]

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? The controversial Peter Singer!

Charlotte Laws cautiously chows down with the Defender of Animals.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008]

Crabs

Peter Royle shows no vexation over Sartre’s crustacean fixation.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008]

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