Tag: "meaning of life"

More Happiness Please

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]

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]