Immanuel Kant Sapere Aude! Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago. “Have the courage to use your own reason!”, (in Latin ...

Hegel’s Classification of History. In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history.. The first of these is original ...

Articles A Philosophical History of Transhumanism John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.. Throughout our history, we human beings have been trying to transform ...

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 On Casuistry Jason Morgan advocates justice without legislation.. We have largely forgotten that there is another way to pursue justice than by deciding what the answer to every problem is ...

Articles The Decline & Rebirth of Philosophy Daniel Kaufman sees philosophy ailing as a guide for Western culture, and considers how it might be revived.. Among the humanities, philosophy is ...

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 ...

Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression. If you have a pessimistic philosophical outlook on the world then it makes sense that you would also feel ...

Angela Phillips is the winner of Philosophy Now’s 2019 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity. She gave this acceptance talk at Conway Hall in January. Stupidity is not about ...

Articles Hegel on History Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history.. We are often taught that history is nothing but the record of past events. Yet Georg Wilhelm ...

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 ...

Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces. I have in ...