Back Issues
Issue 29
October/November 2000
EDITORIAL
The Philosophical Life
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
NIETZSCHE 2000
Introduction
by H. James Birx
Nietzsche & Shopenhauer On Compassion
Timothy J. Madigan explains the crucial distinction between compassion and pity.
Nietzsche & Germany
Stefan Sorgner on Nietzsche's still-controversial influence in the land of his birth.
Nietzsche & Heidegger: Laminate or Separate?
Bill Cooke on the humanist value of Nietzsche.
A Philosophical Illumination or A Delusion?
Psychiatrist Eva Cybulska provides a psychological interpretation of Nietzsche's Eternal Return.
Nietzsche & the Eternal Recurrence
J. Harvey Lomax on the love of eternity.
Nietzsche & Values
Nietzsche rejected all conventional morality but he wasn't a nihilist - he called for a "re-evaluation of all values". Alexander V. Razin describes the gulf separating him from that other great moralist Immanuel Kant.
Nietzsche & Evolution
H. James Birx looks at Darwin's profound influence on Nietzsche's dynamic philosophy.
OTHER ARTICLES
More Praise for Idleness
Bertrand Russell argued that the time spent working by an average person should be drastically reduced, work being an overrated virtue. Paul Western believes that 'idleness' is still not valued highly enough.
Theology & Falsification: A Golden Jubilee Celebration
Can religious beliefs be disproved? If not, what does this imply? 1950 saw the first appearance of a short article which changed the way theologians look at the problem. Antony Flew describes the circumstances in which he wrote it, and we mark the anniversary by reprinting his original article.
The Yuck Factor
Charles Fethe on the Wisdom of Repugnance.
Astrophysics & the Question of Sample Size
Michael Philips on the search for cosmic laws and theories.
The Library of Living Philosophers: Richard Rorty
by Gideon Calder
DEBATE
Introducing Consciousness
David Papineau and Ted Honderich recently locked horns at the Borders Bookstore in London, in a debate organised by Philosophy For All and Philosophy Now.
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers' questions.
Moral Moments: Testing Your Moral Metal
by Joel Marks
LETTERS
Opinions on Natural Selection, the Sanctity of Tissue, Intentions versus Promises, and more...
BOOKS
H. James Birx looks at some books on Nietzsche, while Timothy J. Madigan looks at some other books on Nietzsche. Meanwhile Patrick Scott, a new Nietzsche enthusiast, looks at... you've guessed it!
FILMS
What became of the raucous laughter and inspired slapstick anarchism of the early silent comedies? Our regular film commentator Thomas Wartenberg traces the trajectory of film comedy from laughter to romance.
SHORT STORY
Homes For All
by Stephen Loveless-Rees