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Issue 163: August/September 2024

EDITORIAL

The Politics of Freedom

by Rick Lewis

NEWS

News: August/September 2024

Elixir of extended life for mice • Nicholas Rescher mini obituary • Nietzsche exhibition in his childhood home — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM

Freedom & State Intervention

Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self.

Value Pluralism & Plurality of Choice

Christophe Bruchansky looks at maximising the diversity of choice.

The Unfreedom of Liberty

Arianna Marchetti reflects on the limits of political freedom.

On Retributive Punishment

Oliver Waters asks, is retributive justice justified in a modern society?

The Domesticated Foxes of Bastøy

Veronique Aïcha considers the ideology of imprisonment.

ARTICLES

Stoics in Need of Anger Management

David Ashton finds that the Stoic view of anger needs updating.

Authenticity & Absurdity

Paul Doolan tries to tell them apart.

Doughnut Economics

David Howard on restoring balance to an unstable world.

Sholem Asch (1880-1957)

Brad Rappaport considers a very philosophical novelist.

What Philosophy Book Should Be Required Reading?

Our readers give their thoughts, each winning a random book to read.

INTERVIEWS

Brian Leiter

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, and founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Angela Tan chatted with him about Nietzsche.

LETTERS

Letters

Meanings & Misses • AI versus Consciousness • Induction versus Free Will • Love Questions • Driving Ambitions • Critiquing Tallis • Literary Criticism & Life

COLUMNS

On Music

AmirAli Maleki listens to music from an Islamic perspective.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

by Terence Green

Philosophers on Bread

by Matt Qvortrup

Atomism & Smallism

Raymond Tallis wonders what the world is made from.

The Epicurean Cure For Life

Massimo Pigliucci takes the philosophy pill.

REVIEWS

Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, & Moral Progress and Analytic Philosophy & Human Life by Thomas Nagel

Jane O’Grady mulls over two new books by Thomas Nagel.

Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries

David McKay enjoys Stuart Jeffries’ lively take on postmodernism.

A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Hilarius Bogbinder reviews David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature.

SpongeBob SquarePants

Richard Snowden-Leak wants to know what the perfect burger tastes like.

CARTOONS

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder

Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (1)

by Harley Schwadron

Sanko and Gibson’s Cartoon

by Sanko and Gibson

Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (2)

by Harley Schwadron

Transcendental French Freedom

A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.

FICTION

The Black Widow Case

Dave Hangman on a crucial lawsuit taking place the day after tomorrow.

The Unclassifiables

by Yahia Lababidi

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