Back Issues
Issue 45
March/April 2004
EDITORIAL
What is Virtue?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
THE VIRTUES
Arête
Introducing our section on the nature of virtue, Philip Vassallo describes how the ancient conception of arête arose and developed.
The Virtues of Self-Help 
Philip Cafaro asks what virtues are prized today, and why, and finds inspiration in a place few philosophers look.
OTHER ARTICLES
Love & Logic
After he fell in love, John Dewey became one of the greatest of American thinkers. Nancy Bunge describes Alice Chipman’s impact on Dewey’s Psychology.
Bohr & Kant & Zeno
Would it not be nice if there were a simple foundation to quantum physics? Tony Wagstaff believes there is; and that the Greeks had it.
Popular Bogus Questions
Stephen Doty says we should rephrase certain questions so as not to be bamboozled by language.
Darwin Meets Socrates
Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics.
The View from Mount Zapffe
Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist.
The Last Messiah
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.
LETTERS
Opinions on Pax Americana, Perceiving and Sensing, Dawkins and Darwinism, and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Ignorance is Bliss
by Joel Marks
Food for Thought: The Burden of the History of Philosophy
We’re delighted to announce the birth of a new column by Tim Madigan.
BOOKS
Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen Darwall
Jean Chambers explains how Stephen Darwall’s ideas about care connect to an ambitious theory of rationality and ethics.
After the Science Wars ed. by Keith Ashman & Philip Baringer
Abdelkader Aoudjit reports on which beleaguered positions are still held After the Science Wars.
FILMS
Mystic River
Our movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg says that Clint Eastwood’s recent film Mystic River is a tragedy – but in the good sense of the word.
PROSE & POETRY
Gravity
A short story by Mairi Wilson.
On Real and Artificial Flowers
by Chengde Chen