Tag: "meaning of life"

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning of Life by Anthony Kronman

Mark Huston ponders Anthony Kronman’s arguments about why universities don’t teach the meaning of life.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Books]

The Question of the Meaning of Life: Answerable or Unanswerable?

Jeffrey Gordon wonders what it would mean to have meaning.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Articles]

RUR or RU Ain’t A Person?

Tim Madigan leads the rise of the robots.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Food for Thought]

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

Mark Cyzyk finds out how to be a loafing scamp.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Books]

Purpose, Meaning & Darwinism

Mary Midgley meditates on mind and meaning among the mutations.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

If we think carefully about our decisions, we’ll wind up living better lives, right? Jean Kazez asks this question in response to three recent books about happiness.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Articles]

Space Exploration: Humanity’s Single Most Important Moral Imperative

Dr E. R. Klein says we should reconsider the value of space exploration and start getting ready to leave the nest.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Human Futures]

What Is The Meaning Of Life?

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages…
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Question of the Month]

Don’t Panic! It’s the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Mathias Brochhausen envisages Wittgenstein Hitchhiking around the Galaxy.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Wittgenstein]

Art (and Philosophy) and the Ultimate Aims of Human Life

Raymond Tallis is hungry to expand human consciousness through art.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

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