In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Philosophy now

• Machiavelli’s Roman Empire
  Sam Spound explains why the author of The Prince thought about Rome so much.
• Cicero & the Ideal of Virtue
  Abdullah Shaikh explores Cicero’s ideas about the core Roman principle of virtus.
• The Educational Philosophy of Quintilian
  Philip Vassallo learns from a classic of Classical education.
• Ancient Synergy
  Yolanda De Iuliis looks at how Roman Mithraism incorporated Stoic philosophy.
• The Post Paralysis Peace Paradox
  Cassandra Brandt offers the reflections of a sedentary Stoic.
• Gyara Is All There Is
  This poem speaks to major aspects of Stoic philosophy through the Stoic Musonius Rufus’s exile to the infamous island of Gyara by Nero in 65CE.
• A Very Short History of Critical Thinking
  Luc de Brabandere summarises a long history through key figures of thought.
• Good Grief!
  Tim Madigan ponders the philosophy of Peanuts.
• Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
  Kanan Purkayastha explains how Werner Heisenberg’s 1925 paper turned the quantum theory of the early 1900s into the quantum mechanics of today.
• Identity in the Age of Connectivity
  Sara Asran explores the dynamics of identity online.
• Paul Guyer
  Paul Guyer is an American philosopher and a leading scholar of both Immanuel Kant and aesthetics. AmirAli Maleki interviews him about Kant’s political and moral vision.
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
  Hilarius Bogbinder considers the all too human life of the notorious iconoclast.
• Letters
  When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!
• Plutarch on Grief
  Massimo Pigliucci is moved by a 2,000-year-old letter.
• Death in a Shallow Pond
  Angles on death: Dylan Neri on Singer’s ‘drowning child’ thought experiment and Manisha Sarade on suicide’s meaning for the Greeks and for us. In Classics, Karzan Aziz Mahmood looks at Ernst Fischer’s advocacy of art.
• ROPE
  Les Jones has a Nietzschean take on a Hitchcock thriller.
• The Possibility-Bearing Animal
  Raymond Tallis explores a twilight zone.
• Amazing Times at the Pub Agora
  John Douglas Mullen is a philosophical bar fly on the wall.