Philosophy Now

Philosophy Now is a magazine for everyone interested in ideas. It isn't afraid to tackle all the major questions of life, the universe and everything. It tries to corrupt innocent citizens by convincing them that philosophy can be exciting, worthwhile and comprehensible, and also to provide some light and enjoyable reading matter for those already ensnared by the muse, such as philosophy students and academics. It contains articles on all aspects of philosophy, plus book reviews, film reviews, news, cartoons, and the occasional short story.

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Machiavelli’s Roman Empire • Sam Spound explains why the author of The Prince thought about Rome so much.

Cicero & the Ideal of Virtue • Abdullah Shaikh explores Cicero’s ideas about the core Roman principle of virtus.

SiMON & FiNN

The Educational Philosophy of Quintilian • Philip Vassallo learns from a classic of Classical education.

Philosophers’ Café

Ancient Synergy • Yolanda De Iuliis looks at how Roman Mithraism incorporated Stoic philosophy.

The Post Paralysis Peace Paradox • Cassandra Brandt offers the reflections of a sedentary Stoic.

Gyara Is All There Is • This poem speaks to major aspects of Stoic philosophy through the Stoic Musonius Rufus’s exile to the infamous island of Gyara by Nero in 65CE.

A Very Short History of Critical Thinking • Luc de Brabandere summarises a long history through key figures of thought.

Philosophical Haiku

Good Grief! • Tim Madigan ponders the philosophy of Peanuts.

A Crumb of Doubt

Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics • Kanan Purkayastha explains how Werner Heisenberg’s 1925 paper turned the quantum theory of the early 1900s into the quantum mechanics of today.

Identity in the Age of Connectivity • Sara Asran explores the dynamics of identity online.

Paul Guyer • Paul Guyer is an American philosopher and a leading scholar of both Immanuel Kant and aesthetics. AmirAli Maleki interviews him about Kant’s political and moral vision.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) • Hilarius Bogbinder considers the all too human life of the notorious iconoclast.

Letters • When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!

Plutarch on Grief • Massimo Pigliucci is moved by a 2,000-year-old letter.

Death in a Shallow Pond • Angles on death: Dylan Neri on Singer’s ‘drowning child’ thought experiment and Manisha Sarade on suicide’s meaning for the Greeks and for us. In Classics, Karzan Aziz Mahmood looks at Ernst Fischer’s advocacy of art.

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

The Necessity of Art

ROPE • Les Jones has a Nietzschean take on a Hitchcock thriller.

The Possibility-Bearing Animal • Raymond Tallis explores a twilight zone.

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