Tag Archives: Philosophy

Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — Dec 2023

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The New Criterion – December 2023 issue:

Art  a special section

Absinthe minded  by Barnaby Conrad III
The three faces of Lafayette  by Michele H. Bogart
Matisse & Derain: a study in contrasts  by James Panero
Rodin & Michelangelo: a speculation  by Eric Gibson
A German restoration drama  by Michael J. Lewis
Notes on “Le Serf”  by William Tucker
Thirties at the Met  by Karen Wilkin

New poems  by Kieron Winn & Richard Tillinghast

Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — Nov 2023

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The New Criterion – November 2023 issue:

The burden of the humanities  by Wilfred M. McClay
A lyrical populist revolt  by Victor Davis Hanson
Blanquette de Bard  by Anthony Daniels
Polymorphous Peretz  by Myron Magnet


New poems  by David Mason & Ian Pople

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine Oct/Nov 2023

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Philosophy Now Magazine (October/November 2023) – The new issue features Hannah Arendt – the Complexities of Loving and the Banality of Evil; What Happened to Philosophy?; The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry Into Human Freedom and more…

Hannah Arendt & the Complexities of Loving

Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.

Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil

Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.

THE LIFE PHILOSOPHICAL

What is the Philosophical Experience?

Eldar Sarajlic philosophically considers what it is to do philosophy.

Is Progress Possible In Philosophy?

Mathis Bitton suggests three ways that philosophy progresses.

Why Write Philosophy?

George Sher writes some philosophy to tell us.

What Happened to Philosophy?

Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.

Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — October 2023

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The New Criterion – October 2023 issue:

The new conservative dilemma  a symposium

Today’s conservative dilemma  by James Piereson
Can conservatives still win  by Victor Davis Hanson
Conservatism reconfigured  by Daniel McCarthy
The promise of populism  by Margot Cleveland

New poems  by Daniel Brown, Sophie Cabot Black & W. S. Di Piero

Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — SEPT 2023

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The New Criterion – September 2023 issue:

The spirit of Noël Coward  by Bruce Bawer
Plato on “men” & “women”  by Joshua T. Katz
Rachmaninoff reigns  by David Dubal
The Roman custom  by James Hankins


“Archaeology”: a new poem  by Katie Hartsock

Philosophy Now Magazine June / July 2023 Preview

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Philosophy Now Magazine (June/July 2023) – The ‘Meta Ethics Issue’ featuring Back to the Sophists: Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry and Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward? Hilarius Bogbinder shows how Locke’s intellectual identity changed over time.

The Cognitive Gap

Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.

Who’s To Say?

Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.

Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong

Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.

Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics

Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.

Can You Be Both A Moral Rationalist & A Moral Sentimentalist?

Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.

Previews: New Humanist Magazine – Spring 2022

Top Podcast Interviews: ‘Confronting Leviathan’ Author David Runciman

Wisdom: Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson (Video)

Narrated by Shane Morris with Music by Solus by Life In Colour.

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Books: ‘Hannah Arendt – Critical Lives’ – Samantha Rose Hill (LARB Review)