Tag: "meaning of life"

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]

Slacker

Colin Bartie digs the countercultural theme in Slacker and other films by Richard Linklater.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Films]

“What is to be Done?”

Anna Arutunyan on the lack of agency in contemporary Russia.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Philosophy in Russia]

Miranda and the Meaning of Life

An existentialist fairy tale by Nolan Whyte.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Short Story]

The Philosophy of John Lennon

What is it like to be a Beatle? Gary Tillery argues that Lennon’s pronouncements, both cynical and idealistic, reveal a sincere and original thinker.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Articles]

Before Sunset

Our philosophical film guru Thomas Wartenberg is charmed by Before Sunset but thinks it fumbles an opportunity to examine one of the genuine philosophical problems of growing older.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004: Films]

The Meaning of Life

A gripping tale of philosophy, literature and romance by Philip Bellamy.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Short Story]

Religion and Truth

Richard Taylor on the proper role of myths and mysteries.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Philosophy of Religion]