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Editorial

Life Begins at Forty…

by Rick Lewis

“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts…”
Confucius.

Welcome to the fortieth issue of Philosophy Now. Unlike Confucius, we have come to forty without being free of doubts, or of questions. In fact, without questions, I suppose there would be no magazine.

Philosophy Now took its first unsteady steps in my spare bedroom in 1991.

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