Themed Articles

Meaning and Purpose

J.J.C. Smart investigates the meaning of purpose.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

What’s the meaning of all this?

Brenda Almond on the pursuit of wisdom.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

The Meaning of Life (III)

Richard Taylor says that lives are meaningful only if they are creative.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

In Praise of the Meaningless Life

Bob Sharpe asks if you can have value without meaning (to).
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

Interview with Tu Wei-ming

Harvard philosopher Tu Wei-ming is the most famous advocate of the Confucian tradition outside China. Anja Steinbauer talked to him in Boston.
[Issue 23: Spring 1999]

Philosophy as Teaching & Therapy in Sankara

In a talk to Philosophy For All in London, Trevor Leggett explained the ideas of Sankara, one of the greatest commentators on the Upanishads and a major figure in the history of Indian philosophy.
[Issue 23: Spring 1999]

African Philosophy

For years debate has raged among African philosophers: does Africa have a distinct philosophical tradition, and if so, what is its nature? Rick Lewis asked Emmanuel Eze, who though based in the United States is a leading figure on the African philosophical scene.
[Issue 23: Spring 1999]

It Was Islam That Did It

Edward Ingram explains the West’s debt to the Islamic philosophers.
[Issue 23: Spring 1999]

Introduction to Ethics

[Issue 15: Spring/Summer 1996]

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