Issues
Issue 150: June/July 2022
EDITORIAL
The World in Kant’s Head
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: June/July 2022
Mendelssohn Dreams of Enlightenment • Poll Says Public Want Vegan Cars • Bertrand Russell Comes to Bloomsbury — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
IMMANUEL KANT
Kant’s Political Philosophy
Matt Qvortrup explains how the Enlightenment’s leading philosopher went looking for a bit of peace.
In Search of an Ethical Roadmap
Samantha Neave explores how to be a good person, with the help of Immanuel Kant and the Tooth Fairy.
Kant’s Theory of Human Dignity
Matt McManus explains why people have absolute worth.
Did Kant Solve Skepticism?
Thomas Morrison asks just what Kant learned from his Critique of Pure Reason.
Transcending Kant
Joshua Mozersky argues that reality itself might be accessible to us.
ARTICLES
The Enticing Light of Progress
Helena Moradi asks if the promise of pure progress is problematic.
Advertising is Immoral
Peter Gildenhuys says many adverts are saturated with sophistry.
Gender as Biological Fact vs Gender as Social Construction
Francisco Javier Camacho Jr asks, what difference does it make?
Zhuangzi, Language & Gender
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein asks what Daoist sages might have thought about PC.
Wittgenstein Plays Snooker
Peter Mullen reproduces part of Wittgenstein’s lost work, Bemerkungen Uber Die Grundsätzlichkeit Des Snooker.
Pylyp Orlyk (1672-1742)
Hilarius Bogbinder tells us about an innovative Ukrainian philosopher, democratic theorist and campaigner against tyranny.
INTERVIEWS
Henk Manschot
Henk Manschot is Professor Emeritus at the University of Humanistics in the Netherlands. Amirali Maleki interviews him about Nietzsche’s approach to philosophy and life.
LETTERS
Letters
Life is a Political Act • More Wisdom of Lovers • Alfons Grieder • Still Questing • Paradoxically Yours – Or Not • Self-Censorship vs Insensitivity • Shooting Sartre Full of Holes • Buddhist Phenomenology • Freed Speech • Are Philosophers Stoned?
COLUMNS
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Wine
by Matt Qvortrup
Kindly with Kant
Seán Moran imagines Immanuel as an inn-keeper.
An Unholy Trinity
Raymond Tallis reflects on the man in the mirror.
REVIEWS
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
Vincent Di Norcia thinks about Roman Emperors.
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T.M. Scanlon
Peter Stone gives good reasons why inequality is bad.
Organicity: Entropy or Evolution by David Dobereiner
Alan Shepherd scrutinises a new vision of society.
Good Will Hunting
Michael J. Ferreira takes apart a controversial claim about self-education.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Chris Gill’s Cartoon
by Chris Gill
Guto Dias’ Cartoon
by Guto Dias
Mike Shiell’s Cartoon (1)
by Mike Shiell
Mike Shiell’s Cartoon (2)
by Mike Shiell
Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
by Wolfgang Niesielski
FICTION
The Confession
Mike Mallory sits in on a future tribunal.
A Philosophical Lunch
by Sarah Rochelle
The Deep
by George Hopewell