Themed Articles

Nietzsche & Values

Nietzsche rejected all conventional morality but he wasn’t a nihilist – he called for a “re-evaluation of all values”. Alexander V. Razin describes the gulf separating him from that other great moralist, Immanuel Kant.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

Nietzsche & Germany

Stefan Sorgner on Nietzsche’s still-controversial influence in the land of his birth.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

Nietzsche & Schopenhauer On Compassion

Timothy J. Madigan explains the crucial distinction between compassion and pity.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

Musical Hermeneutics: The ‘Authentic’ Performance of Early Music

What does make a musical performance authentic? What do we mean by authenticity anyway? Michael Graubart looks for some answers.
[Issue 28: August/September 2000]

A Recipe for Authenticity

Nobody ever put food on the table by worrying about the notion of authenticity… or did they? Gordon Giles on authentic culinary performance.
[Issue 28: August/September 2000]

Death in Classical Daoist Thought

Bernard Down explains how two ancient Chinese philosophers explored new perspectives on matters of life and death.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000]

Death, Faith & Existentialism

Filiz Peach explains what two of the greatest existentialist thinkers thought about death: Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000]

On Not Being

Peter Cave discusses the idea that not existing has never hurt anyone.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000]

Parachutes, Ticks & Moral Environments

Vance Morgan on how to build a moral environment of your very own.
[Issue 26: April/May 2000]

Are There Any Moral Facts?

Bob Harrison talks about Moral Realists and the Boo/Hurrah party, and explains what David Hume overlooked.
[Issue 26: April/May 2000]

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