Issues
Issue 134: October/November 2019
EDITORIAL
Brilliance and Gloom
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: October/November 2019
Locke doc shock in Maryland • Žižek says something controversial again • French MPs debate sex and bioethics — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
SCHOPENHAUER
Poodle as Representation, Rottweiler as Will
Christopher Ryan takes a dogged look at Schopenhauer’s view of the world.
Schopenhauer the Optimist
Duncan Richter explains why Schopenhauer thinks art, especially music, can provide a kind of salvation.
The Ethics of a Pessimist
Dennis Vanden Auweele looks at Schopenhauer’s response to suffering.
Philosophical Outlook & Mental Well-Being
Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression.
ARTICLES
About Free Time
Hugh Hunter wonders if we’re always free in our use of our free time.
The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci
Waqās Ahmed connects Leonardo’s worldview with systems theory.
Conceptual Origami
Andrew Notier unfolds the social construction of mathematics for us.
Elastic Selves in the Age of Enhancement
Susana Badiola wonders how technology will help us understand our selves.
Challenge, Enhancement & Martial Arts
Daniel Faggella uses technology to reevaluate what it is to be challenged.
Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
Martin Jenkins looks at the life, love and logic of a medieval free thinker.
OBITUARIES
Michel Serres (1930-2019)
Raymond Boisvert meditates on the mind of a metaphysician of meaning.
INTERVIEWS
Costica Bradatan
Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Francesco D’Isa talks with him about the philosophies of life and death.
LETTERS
Letters
The Clone Wars • Trolley Problem Rumbles On • Return To Zen, Duh • In His Image • A Spirited Response • Errata Philosophica Extra
COLUMNS
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
by Terence Green
Goading Gladiators
Seán Moran analyses amphitheatrical antics.
Religion & Evil
Raymond Tallis has some inconclusive thoughts.
REVIEWS
Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, & the Return of the Far Right by Ronald Beiner
Joe Smith affirms a criticism of a popular view that sees Nietzsche as a right-on revolutionary.
How To Be A Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci
Don Berry finds modern-day applications for life advice from antiquity.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Thomas E. Wartenberg sees current concerns about truth in the news spotlighted by a classic Western.
CARTOONS
Schopenhauer’s Flight of the Valkyries
by Josh Quarles
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Shelley Matheis’ Cartoon
by Shelley Matheis
Bill Stott’s Cartoon
by Bill Stott
FICTION
Street Entertainment
Luke Tarassenko is determined to make a splash.