Charlotte Curran tells us precisely why fat shaming is unethical. Fat people are perhaps the most openly stigmatized individuals in our society: there is data which suggests that weight stigma is more pervasive and intense than even racism and sexism. There is certainly a well-documented social and cultural bias against fat people, particularly in the …
Markus Gabriel one of the founders of New Realism, talks to Anja Steinbauer about why the world does not exist, and other curious metaphysical topics. I’m talking with Markus Gabriel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn, in particular about his new book Why The World Does Not Exist. But first tell us a …
Frank Thermitus says prepare for the worst to achieve the best. Rather than imagining an ideal world, Stoics try to manage their emotions in order to deal with the world as it is. With this in mind, Stoicism would suggest that people of color should begin each day by reminding themselves, “I will face racism, …
Manuel Carta interviews Maurizio Ferraris’s translator into English. Your education was mainly focused on literature. How did you discover philosophy? To be honest, my training in philosophy dates back to high school. I also did a module in Aesthetics – Descartes, Kant and Husserl – during my BA, but that was it at university. I …
Fintan Neylan explains the realism Maurizio Ferraris introduces in his Introduction. At the opening of his 1907 lecture series ‘Pragmatism’, William James commented on the growing disparity between academic philosophy and a philosophy whose relevance ordinary people would feel in their lives. This latter philosophy would be one which truly mattered to us, James claimed, …
Psychiatrist Eva Cybulska provides a psychological interpretation of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return. “Even as ‘a philosopher’ I still did not express my essential thoughts (or ‘delusions’).”Friedrich Nietzsche, in a letter to Overbeck, April 1883 “Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus The influence of …
Bill Cooke on the humanist value of Nietzsche. The story of the long rehabilitation of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) after being unfairly implicated in the rise of Nazism is well known. But the time may be coming when another daring rescue operation will be called for. For several years now, Nietzsche has been hailed as one …
An introduction by H. James Birx. “Let us assume that people will be allowed to read [my work] in about the year 2000.”Nietzsche, 24 September 1886” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has emerged as the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, although both controversy and confusion surround his life and thought. He was born on 15 …
J. Harvey Lomax on the love of eternity. Dedicated to Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer on his 100th birthday. “Docemur disputare, non vivere.”(“We are taught how to discuss and debate, but not how to live.”)Seneca Epistulae morales 95, 13 In the twentieth century “the plebeianism of the modern spirit, which is of English origin, erupted once again …
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. Friedrich Nietzsche presented the world with a philosophy of life that called for a rigorous reevaluation of all values. His critical …