Articles What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.. It is often said that becoming a parent is a ...

Articles An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933.Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.. One night in ...

Articles Bertrand Russell Stalks The Nazis Thomas Akehurst on why Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy.. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is best known for his activities at the very ...

Grant Bartley lays down the law in favour of the ‘right’ sort of heresy. “Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them.” Gerald ...

Forms of Pacifism. Pacifism emerges as people take these moral restraints on war ever more seriously. Varieties of pacifism differ by degree. It is helpful to understand the various forms of pacifism ...

Articles Meaning & Morality in Modernity Andrew Brower Latz traces two core problems for the modern mind.. In Sam Lipsyte’s satirical novel The Ask, set in contemporary New York, the protagonist says, ...

Articles A Can of Tomato Juice in the Sea Alejandra Mancilla uses an example from Robert Nozick to question the claims to ownership made by breeders of genetically modified organisms.. John Locke’s ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities.. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef’, an ...

It is clearly internet shopping, franchised fast food and surgically-enhanced boobs. No, this is not true. I think the only answer is to strip back every layer of the physical world, every learnt ...

Articles What’s Wrong With The Enlightenment? Not as much as some people think, says Phil Badger.. What is being referred to when we speak of ‘The Enlightenment’ is not always easy to pin down, but in ...

Fiction The Death of Pythagoras Bruce Pennington tells us how Pythagoras became a has-bean, while another Bruce Pennington drew the portraits…. Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative ...