Question of the Month Is Morality Objective? The following answers to this key philosophical question each win a random book. It is clear that morality is a feature of humanity. However, if morality ...

Death Death in Classical Daoist Thought Bernard Down explains how two ancient Chinese philosophers explored new perspectives on matters of life and death. Daoism (or Taoism) is both a religion and a ...

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 ...

Articles Socratic Humility Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy. “Gentlemen of Athens, I am far from making a defence now on my own behalf, as you might think ...

Films The Truman Show Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is ...

Films There Will Be Blood Terri Murray tells us about a Hollywood hero beyond good and evil. If Hollywood genre movies can be depended upon to deliver one thing, it is a good hero pitted against an ...

Quality Metaphysics Pirsig postulates that everything that exists can be assumed to be a value (though he divides values into two classes, as we’ll see later). As his system differs from traditional ...

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 ...

Ways of Knowing Analytic versus Continental Philosophy Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as ...

Question of the Month What Is The Future Of Humanity? The following philosophical forecasts of our fate each win an unforeseeable book. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution, human progress has ...

‘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, ...

I asked an AI the question. It listed natural disasters, but also named itself as a possible cause of our demise. However, it also said that humanity could prevent it. I suggest the AI has identified ...