Mark C. Watney watches Martin Heidegger’s kitchen encounter. Tears seeped through the onion’s flaky skin as it sat in misery before Herr Heidegger. “I just cannot seem to find myself!” the wretched ...

The ambition for de-extinction resonates with transhumanism – a movement that champions using technology to enhance human, ...

Thus, for modern-day followers of both Rousseau and Locke, forced vaccination should be seen as ethically justified during ...

Tallis in Wonderland Revisiting the Ontological Argument Raymond Tallis contends that a definition of God cannot necessitate ...

We should all live according to Nature. No, I don’t mean that we should run naked into the forest and hug trees (though there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that). I mean that if we want to be happy ...

Norman Schultz wonders when working is wrong. [Issue 170: October/November 2025] This site uses cookies to recognize users and allow us to analyse site usage. By continuing to browse the site with ...

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. One night in long bygone times, man ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...

Samuel Kaldas compares two views on the nature of animals and their implications for our moral responsibility towards them. “No one understands animals who does not see that every one of them, even ...

Generally for existentialists, one is not born anything: everything we are is the result of our choices, as we build ourselves out of our own resources and those which society gives us. We don ’t only ...

Mikhail Epstein sees a bright future for metaphysics in the hi-tech age. “Numerous universes might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out; much labor lost ...

In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history. The first of these is original history. Original history refers to ...