Tag: "meaning of life"

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

Mark Cyzyk finds out how to be a loafing scamp.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Books]

Purpose, Meaning & Darwinism

Mary Midgley meditates on mind and meaning among the mutations.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

If we think carefully about our decisions, we’ll wind up living better lives, right? Jean Kazez asks this question in response to three recent books about happiness.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Articles]

Space Exploration: Humanity’s Single Most Important Moral Imperative

Dr E. R. Klein says we should reconsider the value of space exploration and start getting ready to leave the nest.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Human Futures]

What Is The Meaning Of Life?

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages…
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Question of the Month]

Don’t Panic! It’s the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Mathias Brochhausen envisages Wittgenstein Hitchhiking around the Galaxy.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Wittgenstein]

Art (and Philosophy) and the Ultimate Aims of Human Life

Raymond Tallis is hungry to expand human consciousness through art.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Slacker

Colin Bartie digs the countercultural theme in Slacker and other films by Richard Linklater.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Films]

“What is to be Done?”

Anna Arutunyan on the lack of agency in contemporary Russia.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Philosophy in Russia]

Miranda and the Meaning of Life

An existentialist fairy tale by Nolan Whyte.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Short Story]

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