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Frankl & Sartre in Search of Meaning

Georgia Arkell compares logotherapy and atheistic existentialism.

Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray, now ninety-two years old, was, among many other things, one of the most impactful feminists of the 1970s liberation movements - before she was marginalised, then ostracised, from the francophone intellectual sphere.

Significance

Ruben David Azevedo tells us why, in a limitless universe, we’re not insignificant.

The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness

Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.

Philosophers Exploring The Good Life

Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.

Who's Watching Who?

Grant Bartley tells a terrifying tale of privacy, paranoia and popular culture.

M.M. Bakhtin (1895-1975)

Vladimir Makovtsev asks: M.M. Bakhtin, philosopher or philologist?

Kant & Love

Ivan lyer has a beautiful Kantian understanding of love.

Kant the (P)Russian Philosopher?

Robert R. Clewis considers present implications of Kant’s Russian connections.

What You Need to Read Before You Read Kant

22nd April 2024 is the 300th birthday of Immanuel Kant.

The Healing of Philosophy

John Clark, MD, says our worship of the intellect has become pathological.

When to Hold Your Friends' Feet to the Fire

Jordan Myers argues, against Christine Korsgaard, that we shouldn't always hold our friends morally responsible.

How to Be an Antiracist Consequentialist

Nathaniel Goldberg and Chris Gavaler consider lbram X. Kendi’s requirements for being antiracist.

Shakespeare: Folly, Humanism & Critical Theory

Sam Gilchrist Hall! surveys folly and wisdom in Shakespeare's world and beyond.

Don Quixote & Narrative Identity

Inés Pereira Rodrigues asks, are we always or ever) who we Say we are?

Milan Kundera's Philosophy of the Novel

Mike Sutton reflects on the existential code of the novel.

What Makes A Book Great?

Colin Stott critiques the critical thinking of Matthew Arnold and F.R. Leavis.

Plato versus Literature

Daniel Toré asks, can literature save us?

"Stand Out Of My Light"

Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.

The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.

Towards Love

George Mason on love as shared identity.

Hume's Problem of Induction

Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism

John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.

How to Have a Good Life

Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca's account of the good life is really practical.

Horseplay in Hibernia

Seán Moran explores equine escapades in Eire and elsewhere.

Philosophy & Hurling: Thinking & Playing

Stiofán Ó Murchadha knowing how we know.

Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics

Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.

Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform

Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.

Irish Philosophy & Me

Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.