Issues
Issue 29: October/November 2000
EDITORIAL
The Philosophical Life
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: October/November 2000
Dialogue impossible • Philosopher in identity scam • Last chance for lost souls • Indian philosophers celebrate jubilee
NIETZSCHE
A Philosophical Illumination or A Delusion?
Psychiatrist Eva Cybulska provides a psychological interpretation of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return.
Nietzsche & Evolution
H. James Birx looks at Darwin’s profound influence on Nietzsche’s dynamic philosophy.
Nietzsche & Germany
Stefan Sorgner on Nietzsche’s still-controversial influence in the land of his birth.
Nietzsche & Heidegger: Laminate or Separate?
Bill Cooke on the humanist value of Nietzsche.
Nietzsche & Schopenhauer On Compassion
Timothy J. Madigan explains the crucial distinction between compassion and pity.
Nietzsche & the Eternal Recurrence
J. Harvey Lomax on the love of eternity.
Nietzsche & Values
Nietzsche rejected all conventional morality but he wasn’t a nihilist – he called for a “re-evaluation of all values”. Alexander V. Razin describes the gulf separating him from that other great moralist, Immanuel Kant.
Nietzsche 2000
An introduction by H. James Birx.
ARTICLES
Astrophysics & the Question of Sample Size
Michael Philips on the search for cosmic laws and theories.
More Praise for Idleness
Bertrand Russell argued that the time spent working by an average person should be drastically reduced, work being an overrated virtue. Paul Western believes that ‘idleness’ is still not valued highly enough.
The Yuck Factor
Charles Fethe on the Wisdom of Repugnance.
Theology & Falsification: A Golden Jubilee Celebration
Can religious beliefs be disproved? If not, what does this imply? 1950 saw the first appearance of a short article which changed the way theologians look at the problem. Antony Flew describes the circumstances in which he wrote it, and we mark the anniversary by reprinting his original article.
Introducing Consciousness
David Papineau and Ted Honderich recently locked horns at Borders Bookstore in London, in a debate organised by Philosophy For All and Philosophy Now.
Richard Rorty
by Gideon Calder
LETTERS
Letters
Natural Selection • The Sanctity of Tissue • Let Us Suffer If We Want • Intentions versus Promises • Course Pleasures • Scientists Need Philosophy
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
Testing Your Moral Metal
by Joel Marks
REVIEWS
What Nietzsche Really Said by Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins
Patrick Scott, a new Nietzsche enthusiast, looks at… you’ve guessed it!
Nietzsche Studies (I)
H. James Birx looks at some books on Nietzsche.
Nietzsche Studies (II)
Timothy J. Madigan looks at some other books on Nietzsche.
Film Comedy
What became of the raucous laughter and inspired slapstick anarchism of the early silent comedies? Our regular film commentator Thomas Wartenberg traces the trajectory of film comedy from laughter to romance.
FICTION
Homes For All
A short story by Stephen Loveless-Rees.