Gillian Rose: Fascism and representation
‘Not in my name’ is and is not in my name In her essay ‘The Future of Auschwitz’, Gillian Rose describes two obvious reactions provoked
Philosophy
the unexamined life is not worth living
the unexamined life is not worth living Socrates (Plato, 1997, 33) The unexamined life is not worth living is perhaps Socrates’ most famous quote and
Socrates On Trial
Socrates is perhaps the most famous philosophical figure of the last 2,500 years. If you are new to philosophy then you will come to see
Žižek on the history of humanity and violence
Couldn’t the entire history of humanity be seen as a growing normalisation of injustice, entailing the nameless and faceless suffering of millions?
Distorted Rhetoric and Forgotten Principles: How AOC is Reviving Oratory in the US
There are parallels to be made between the shape of democracy in Athens all those years ago and that of US politics today. In the same manner that rhetoric took principal place in determining the outcome of the socio-economic structures of the Athenian city-state, so too have we witnessed the undeniable power that rhetoric continues to possess in the present-day.
Paul Rée, Nietzsche, and the Myth of Libertas
In 1878 Nietzsche wrote a letter to Paul Rée (1849-1901) in which he declared: ‘All my friends are now agreed that my book [Human, All-Too-Human]
Gillian Rose: To be a philosopher you need three things
Gillian Rose Quote: What do you need to be a philosopher? You discover that you are a philosopher: it is not something you ever become.
Camus’ The Plague: Contagion, confinement and complicity
Camus’ The Plague (La Peste) is one of the most famous novels penetrating the heart of the world’s current pandemic.
For Nietzsche, life’s ultimate question was: ‘Does it dance?’
Friedrich Nietzsche’s body of work is notoriously difficult to navigate. He wrote in multiple styles, including essays, aphorisms, poems, and fiction. He introduced idiosyncratic concepts
Philosophy and the Liberal Arts
This image of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts is perhaps the most iconic of liberal arts education. But what does it mean?
The New Dark Age
Hope is above all ‘a state of mind … it is a dimension of the soul … It is an orientation of the spirit’
The Science and Culture of Health, Strength, and Beauty
Plato speaks of the three physical virtues—health, strength, and beauty—as joining to form one chorus with the virtues of the soul—piety, courage, temperance, and justice.
Educating for Freedom: in praise of Freire
What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Hegel and Martin Luther King
Hegel and Martin Luther King shared a deep understanding of profound change. There can be nothing new without a struggle with the old. And they might be telling us something important about right now
Socrates in love: how the ideas of this woman are at the root of Western philosophy
Socrates is a foundational figure of Western philosophy. New research explores if his ideas about truth, love, justice, courage and knowledge were born out of his relationship with a fiercely intelligent woman, Aspasia of Miletus.
Radical Philosophy: read the entire archive
Explore all the issues of Radical Philosophy featuring essays and interviews from many of the modern thinkers.
Philosophy and Kant
Towards the conclusion of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason he writes something that might come as a surprise.
Liberal Arts Education by and for Women
Liberal Arts Education owes much to a female mastermind.
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
According to Ubuntu philosophy, people are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time.
Plato’s Apology
So persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth. Read one of Plato’s most powerful works.