Articles The Success & Failure of Non-Violence Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is ...

Brief Lives Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) Martin Jenkins looks at the life of an influential early political philosopher. Etienne de la Boétie is probably best known in the English-speaking world ...

Articles The Philosophy of Organism Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality. The philosophy of organism is the name of the metaphysics of the mathematician and philosopher ...

Nietzsche Nietzsche & Evolution H. James Birx looks at Darwin’s profound influence on Nietzsche’s dynamic philosophy. The scientist Charles Darwin had awakened the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche from ...

Articles Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism. Usually, when someone is called a ‘person of principle’ it is meant as a compliment. For the most part ...

William Rowe is a professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Though an atheist, he spends much of his working life thinking about God. Nick Trakakis recently chatted with him about God and evil and ...

Articles The Gods of Spinoza & Teilhard de Chardin Derek Harrison compares radically alternative visions of the absolute. “I saw eternity the other night. Like a great ring of pure and endless light.” ...

Articles What is natural about Natural Rights? Do Natural Rights exist? Michael Birshan investigates one of the more persistent political assertions of the modern world in this prize-winning essay.

Articles Nietzsche on Love Willow Verkerk considers what Nietzsche has to teach us about love. What could Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) have to teach us about love? More than we might suppose.

Zombies & Philosophy The Zombie Threat to a Science of Mind Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. For the last five hundred years or so physics has been doing extraordinarily ...

Articles Hilary Putnam on Realism, Truth & Reason Putnam is one of today’s leading living philosophers. He has changed his ideas repeatedly on some central philosophical problems including the nature ...

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 ...