Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago. “Have the courage to use your own reason!”, (in Latin sapere aude!) is the battle ...

In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history. The first of these is original history. Original history refers to ...

Paul Doolan clearly sees transparency through philosophy. Chances are you’re too young to remember Carly Simon’s tune ‘No Secrets’ from her 1972 album No Secrets, in which she sings to her lover “We ...

Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern world to be well worth weil. In her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah ...

Peter Abbs follows Buddhism’s path towards becoming a Western humanism. Some years ago, I started a course of meditation. Although ‘mindfulness’ was in the air and meditation programmes were being ...

Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of being. What is less often ...

Dan Corjescu looks at how Kant wanted to unite the world. Globalization, democracy, and migration are themes which continually ignite debate, both scholarly and non-scholarly. None of this is new. In ...

Brian King wonders what there is about human minds that’s unique to us. There is a cliché, derived from Aristotle, that ‘man is the rational animal’. While all animals have sensations, appetites and ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...

Grant Bartley argues that to say the mind is physical is an abuse of language. The most widely accepted attempt at describing the nature of embodied thought in this materialistic age is called ...

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 long bygone times, man ...

Sally Latham argues that sometimes it’s better to be wrong. It is a fairly common assumption that factually correct beliefs are to be strived for and factually incorrect beliefs are to be avoided. In ...