Tag: "political philosophy"

Pax Americana

David Gamez thinks we need to revise the theory of Just Wars to say when it is and when it isn’t permissible to impose utopia by force.
[Issue 44: January/February 2004: The Issues]

Affairs of Heart & Affairs of State

Philosophers have a problem with truth; but what about truth-telling? Peter Cave publishes some correspondence, recently re-discovered, concerning a long-forgotten political scandal. For the sake of brevity, incidental material in the letters has been excluded. Now, how do you tell people that you are telling them the truth?
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Short Story]

Dewey and the Democratic Way of Life

Kevin S. Decker on John Dewey’s unique political contribution.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: American Pragmatism]

We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident

by Joel Marks
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Moral Moments]

Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Patriotism

Carol Nicholson on the need for a different kind of national pride.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: American Pragmatism]

The 21st World Congress of Philosophy

Every five years, philosophers from around the globe gather to drink coffee and swap ideas. Philosophy Now’s Anja Steinbauer and Rick Lewis were there.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Articles]

The Dancer Upstairs

John Malkovich has made a clever movie about the hunt for a fat, cardigan-wearing philosophy professor with blood on his hands. Rich Guilfoyle watches The Dancer Upstairs.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Films]

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.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Dear Socrates]

Sports and Deviant Behavior

Guest editor Tim Delaney introduces our Sports issue and explains why studying the misdemeanors of athletes can throw light on the problems the rest of us face.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order by Patrick Hayden

The late John Rawls was a giant of political philosophy; Abdelkader Aoudjit peruses Patrick Hayden’s study of his ideas.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Books]

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