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Editorial

The Spirit of the Age

by Rick Lewis

Philosophy Now has been going for about three years now, but this is the first time that it has been sold widely in shops like John Menzies. So if you’ve just bought this magazine for the first time, hello! All kinds of interesting, exciting, dangerous, stupid or even brilliant ideas bubble around quietly in philosophy departments and seminar rooms. We try to bring a few of them to the wider audience we feel they deserve!

One feature of the philosophy scene today is that there are two quit e separate philosophical traditions vying for the hearts and minds of the world’s thinkers. The one which is more prevalent on the Continent is marked by a continuing interest in the big questions of the meaning of life and our place in the world. The other, known as analytical philosophy, dominates in Britain and the U.

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