This Week’s Quote is: “Individuals have rights… so strong and far-reaching that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do.’

This week’s quote is: “The Master did not talk about marvels, feats of strength, irregularities, gods.”

This week’s quote is: “Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world - and defines himeself afterwards... to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself.”

This week’s quote is: “Man is condemned to be free.”

This week’s quote is: “A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilisation, a token of technical progress.”

This week’s quote is: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. it is the opium of the people.”

This week’s quote is: “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of a man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

This week’s quote is: “I thought to myself, ‘I am wiser than this man; for neither of us really knows anything fine and good, but this man thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not think I do either. I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either.’”

This week’s quote is: “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

This is the start of a new weekly series in which a philosophical quote will be briefly explained by Dr Anja Steinbauer.

This week’s quote is: “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”

Marcel performs the ‘Am I a coward?’ monologue from Hamlet at the 2020 Philosophy Now Festival.

The aim of this video is to give those who have not previously attended the Philosophy Now Festival an idea of what it's all about. All of the footage in this video was taken at the 2020 festival.

In 2015 Cressida Cowell recieved the Philosophy Now Award for Contributions In The Fight Against Stupidity. This is her acceptance speech at the Philosophy Now Festival 2015.

The 2020 PFA George Ross Memorial Lecture given by Dr Ian James Kidd at the Philosophy Now Festival. Kidd says there are four philosophical ways to not like people.

Peter Singer won Philosophy Now’s 2016 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity. This is his acceptance talk.

The recipient of the 2017 Award is James Randi. The recipient of the 2018 Award is Prof Robert Sapolsky. The presentation of the awards took place in Conway Hall, London, during the Philosophy Now Festival on 20 January 2018.

Dr Peter Cave gives the 2018 George Ross Memorial Lecture in Conway Hall, London, during the Philosophy Now Festival on 20 January 2018.

The Great Balloon Debate (chaired by Filiz Peach, organised by Philosophy For All) offers the audience the chance to vote on which famous historical philosopher should be thrown out of a balloon first to stop it crashing. This debate took place in Conway Hall, London, during the Philosophy Now Festival on 20 January 2018. The participants were:

• Anja Steinbauer as Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Martin Muchall as The Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE)
• Richard Baron as Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753)
• John Holroyd as Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

This discussion, chaired by Richard Baron, took place in Conway Hall, London, during the Philosophy Now Festival on 20 January 2018.

The philosopher Slavoj Zizek was interviewed in a London café in July 2017 by Anja Steinbauer and Katy Baker from Philosophy Now magazine.

John Holroyd introduces his book Judging Religion. The chair of the session is Richard Baron. Recorded during the Philosophy Now Festival on 21 November 2015.

In the third episode of ‘Philosophy Now, Please’, we ask: What is history? How does it develop? Where is it going? We discuss a range of thinkers and ideas, helped by our guest speakers Prof. Alfons Grieder and Richard Baron.

In its second episode, Philosophy Now, Please considers the concept of the ‘holiday’. What is it, and why should we go on one? While Rick Lewis suggests the holiday might be regarded as a moral duty toward our loved ones, Mark Fielding admits to be rather bad at them. Anja Steinbauer discusses a history of holiday, and Nikki Dekker wonders what a good holiday consists of: rest, play or education? A special guest tells us all about his favourite holiday. But in the end, Jane O’Grady says, we may travel the world, but we can never escape ourselves.

In this first episode of Philosophy Now, Please, Rick Lewis takes a look at the philosophical practice of watching sports, while Anja Steinbauer considers the Kantian imperative and sportsmanship and Nikki Dekker describes two competing attitudes to sporting competition. We also have Shahrar Ali as a guest speaker, talking about the politics surrounding the London 2012 Olympics.