Themed Articles

The Injustice of Punitive Justice

We take their money, their freedom, sometimes their lives, but opinions differ over exactly what we are trying to achieve, how we should go about it and what justifies it anyway. Jane Forsey on the punishment of criminals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

The American Death Penalty

Is George W. Bush a serial killer? Terri Murray attacks the death penalty with the help of two prisoners executed by the state – Socrates and Jesus.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

Nietzsche & Heidegger: Laminate or Separate?

Bill Cooke on the humanist value of Nietzsche.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

A Philosophical Illumination or A Delusion?

Psychiatrist Eva Cybulska provides a psychological interpretation of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

Nietzsche & the Eternal Recurrence

J. Harvey Lomax on the love of eternity.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

Nietzsche 2000

An introduction by H. James Birx.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

Nietzsche & Evolution

H. James Birx looks at Darwin’s profound influence on Nietzsche’s dynamic philosophy.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

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]

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