Hegel & History Hegel’s Understanding of History Jack Fox-Williams outlines the basics of how history works for Hegel. One of Hegel’s most interesting but misunderstood areas of enquiry concerns ...

Food for Thought The Basis of Morality Tim Madigan on scientific versus religious explanations of ethical behaviour. “A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal ...

‘Meaning’ is a word referring to what we have in mind as ‘signification’, and it relates to intention and purpose. ‘Life’ is applied to the state of being alive; conscious existence. Mind, ...

The question of what a person is, isn’t exclusive to philosophy. Consequently, there are many answers. In a physiological and biological context, a person is a human with certain essential ...

Philosophy & Depression Philipp Mainländer (1841-1876), another German philosopher, also sheds light on the connection between philosophical outlook and mental health. Theodor Lessing called ...

Articles Artificial Consciousness: Our Greatest Ethical Challenge Paul Conrad Samuelsson takes the perspective of the computer for a change. Debate about cutting-edge technological advancements is ...

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 ...

Articles The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond 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 ...

Human Enhancement Moral Enhancement Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson argue that artificial moral enhancement is now essential if humanity is to avoid catastrophe. For the vast majority of our ...

The Argument from Impermanence Buddhism presents two further arguments for the doctrine of ‘no-self’: the argument from impermanence and the argument from control. The argument from impermanence ...

Interview Slavoj Žižek In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’. So Professor Žižek – Don’t call me professor if you don’t want me to kill you ...