Themed Articles

The Frame of Meaning

Dominic Kirkham exhorts us to find meaning in the present moment.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

The Meaning of Life (I)

Antony Flew on Tolstoy’s obsession.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

Can a Life of Child-rearing Be Meaningful?

Sarah Conly on devoting one’s life to another.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

The Meaning of Life (II)

Roger Ames on a Chinese approach.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999]

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 in Uzbekistan

[Issue 23: Spring 1999]

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