Philosophy Now Magazine (June/July 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Meaning Issue’…
The Search for Meaning
by Rick Lewis
A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.
Philosophers Exploring The Good Life
Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.
The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness
Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.
What Is Life Worth?
Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.