Issues
Issue 122: October/November 2017
EDITORIAL
Socrates & Plato Now & Then
by Grant Bartley
NEWS
News: October/November 2017
Philosophic Park: Beware of Intellectual Dinosaurs! • Robot Council jerks into motion • Scientists tamper with the stuff of life (again) — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
SOCRATES, PLATO AND MODERN LIFE
Rediscovering Plato’s Vision
Mark Vernon sees Plato in an old light.
Socrates, Memory & The Internet
Matt Bluemink uses a Socratic argument to assess the influence of the net on our brains and our minds.
Embracing Imperfection: Plato vs Nussbaum On Love
Lillian Wilde contemplates what love means.
Socrates & Pre-Truth Politics
Spencer Klavan proclaims Socrates’ revolutionary answer to Nietzsche and Trump.
Would Plato Allow Facebook In His Republic?
Jenni Jenkins argues, probably not.
ARTICLES
How Cubism Tried To Create A New Language
Stuart Greenstreet wonders why Cubist communication failed to catch on.
Democracy & the Unreasonable: Lessons from Rawls
Francisco Mejia Uribe asks if democracy can overcome fundamentalism.
To Connect Or Not To Connect?
Dana Andreicut wonders whether, or not, to escape into the Matrix.
The Experience Machine and Psychiatric Drugs
Emil Asplund & Erik Gustavsson try to find the truth about medication.
Robert Pirsig & His Metaphysics of Quality
Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)
Alistair MacFarlane considers the modes of life of a conservative philosopher.
INTERVIEWS
Slavoj Žižek
In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’.
LETTERS
Letters
Conscious Correspondence • Sceptical About Skepticism • No Madness in Philosophy Now • Dissonance Dissidence • Time & Time Again • Epistemically Essential Epistles
COLUMNS
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
by Terence Green
Who Speaks For Socrates?
Peter Adamson finds Socrates speaking for everyone else.
Pugnacious In The Punjab
Seán Moran considers holy war in Lahore.
Time, Reciprocal Containment, & The Ouroboros
Raymond Tallis tries to fit everything in, in time.
REVIEWS
The Monk and the Philosopher by Jean-François Revel & Matthieu Ricard
Lachlan Dale explores some of the philosophical implications of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ecological Ethics by Patrick Curry
Vincent Di Norcia looks at various approaches to ecological ethics.
Elle
Terri Murray scrutinises a feminist film about a woman who desires her rapist. Warning: SPOILERS
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Chris Gill’s Cartoon
by Chris Gill
Cameron Harvey’s Cartoon
by Cameron Harvey
FICTION
The Reverse Solipsist
Ray Liikanen overhears a modern-day Socratic dialogue.