Welcome to Philosophy Now. the bi-monthly magazine for everyone interested in ideas. Published since 1991, it was the winner of the 2016 Bertrand Russell Society Award.

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism. Atheism, defined as belief in the absence of any God or gods, has long been a topic of philosophical inquiry. In recent years, amidst a backdrop of growing secularization and cultural diversity, atheism has emerged as …

The Search for Meaning Philosophers Exploring The Good Life Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.. I have attended a number of funerals recently and it has got me thinking. Imagine after you’ve died, your loved ones are sitting around, reminiscing about your life.

Let’s look at this question through three lenses: ethical, metaphysical, and political. Ethically, according to Epicurus, freedom is not ‘fulfilling all desires’, but instead, being free from vain, unnecessary, or addictive desires. The addict is enslaved even when he obtains his drug; but the virtuous person is free because she doesn’t even desire the drug.

The following answers to this fundamental question each win a random book. Life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts, reacts, evaluates, and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism). The crucial difference between life and non-life …

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Definition 1. A reality consists of the interactions of a particular thing with what ‘becomes’ for that thing.. Definition 2. Reality (with a capital R) consists of all realities.. Definition 3. The nature of a reality, or of Reality, is a description or explanation of that reality, or of Reality.

I would like to say that truth exists outside of us, for all to see. Unfortunately, humans can be stubborn, and so the actual pinning down of what a truth is is more complicated. Society plays host to two types of truths; subjective truth and objective truth.

Visions of Society Aristotle’s Philosophy of Equality, Peace, & Democracy Matt Qvortrup argues that Aristotle’s political philosophy is surprisingly modern.. The son of a doctor, Aristotle was born in the city of Stagira in Macedonia in the year 384 BC, and was educated at Plato’s Academy.

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