Issues
Issue 24: Summer 1999
EDITORIAL
What’s It All About?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: Summer 1999
Princeton welcomes Peter Singer • Wittgenstein in burglary shock • Philosopher wages war • Doctors want your body — News Editor: Derrick Farnham
THE MEANING OF LIFE
Can a Life of Child-rearing Be Meaningful?
Sarah Conly on devoting one’s life to another.
In Praise of the Meaningless Life
Bob Sharpe asks if you can have value without meaning (to).
Meaning and Purpose
J.J.C. Smart investigates the meaning of purpose.
The Frame of Meaning
Dominic Kirkham exhorts us to find meaning in the present moment.
The Meaning of Life (I)
Antony Flew on Tolstoy’s obsession.
The Meaning of Life (II)
Roger Ames on a Chinese approach.
The Meaning of Life (III)
Richard Taylor says that lives are meaningful only if they are creative.
What’s the meaning of all this?
Brenda Almond on the pursuit of wisdom.
ARTICLES
Søren Kierkegaard
Jeff Mason on Kierkegaard’s three forms of life: the ethical, the aesthetic and the religious.
The Epicurean Option
Dane Gordon on the friends of Epicurus.
What’s New in… Aesthetics
Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
by Kai Hammermeister
QUIZ
Philosophy where? Win a book in our competition!!!
Andrew Dodsworth asks a few questions about who wrote what.
INTERVIEWS
Absolute Compassion
The BBC’s chief inquisitor Jeremy Paxman interviews the Dalai Lama.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
Daniel Hill cross-examines Peter van Inwagen, God’s barrister.
LETTERS
Letters
Twins • Foundations of Islam • Designer Gods • Designer Christianity • An Omnipotent Being • Relative Impossibility • More on God
COLUMNS
Peg’s Piece
Philosophy Now’s own columnist Peg Tittle considers the nature of violence.
REVIEWS
How are we to Live? by Peter Singer
Michael Williams describes Peter Singer’s attempt to take the point of view of the universe.
The Meaning of Life compiled by John Gabay
Tim LeBon browses an anthology on The Meaning of Life.
FICTION
A Sceptical Tea Party
A short story by Peter Williams, perhaps?