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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Philosophy Shorts

A Critique of Antinatalism • Deniz Kose thinks there’s good reasons to want human life to continue.

Philosophical Haiku

Making Omelettes & A Future Like Ours • Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders what’s wrong with killing – first chickens, then humans.

Death as Life’s Picture Frame • Joshua Clements puts us in the picture.

EXISTENTIAL COMICS • A strip by Corey Mohler on the Death of Socrates

Who Wants to Live Forever? • Dan Pollen weighs up the pros and cons of indefinitely extended life.

SiMON + FiNN

Immortality & A Galactic Future • Andy Yee looks forward to humanity’s technological ascension.

Being

Best Before The End

Jürgen Habermas: Defender of the Enlightenment • Patrick West on postmodernism and communicative reason.

Breakfast with Habermas • Matt Qvortrup recalls chat over coffee and scrambled eggs with a champion of reasoned debate.

Margalit & Limits to Political Compromise • Laure Gillot-Assayag reflects on the political philosophy of Avishai Margalit.

Great Minds, Flawed Lives • Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them?

What’s the Value of Mountaineering? • Suleyman Moollan wonders why people climb mountains.

Why Sport Needs Good & Evil • Kola Adeosun & Ato Kenya Rockcliffe on the dynamics of sporting greatness.

Interview • Antonio Negri (1933-2023) was an Italian political philosopher who in his time courted controversy, and was even jailed for links with Communist organisations. Leonardo Caffo talked with him about the future of the Left.

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) • Marco Pandolfini on the ideas of a highly contentious legal theorist.

Letters

Nexus • Frank S. Robinson ponders our AI future while Priya Muthukannan studies a philosophy of compassion. In our Classics review, Teresa Candeias reads Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem.

The Philosophy of Ramalinga Vallalar, Volumes 1 and 2

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Star Trek: Enterprise • Sofia Villaweaver asks, what kind of future do we want – Gene Roddenberry’s, or Friedrich Nietzsche’s?

Cut-Price Dualism: ‘Properties Not Substances’ • Raymond Tallis says a modern modified mind-body dualism still doesn’t work.

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The Delphic Injunctions • Massimo Pigliucci philosophises about prophetic principles.

The Tragic Destiny of Life on Earth • Grant Bartley regrets ever getting into a time machine.