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3 weeks ago | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
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“Unhand me, grey-beard loon.” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
In a clearing on the edge of the woods, a flying saucer stands on spindly legs among the still-smouldering vegetation.
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2 months ago | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please EditorialSince the days of Socrates, philosophers have argued over and written about the best form of society. The classic example is Plato’s Republic, his blueprint for an ideal state.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
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“And the people bowed and prayed, To the neon God they made” Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence
“Return to God?” you ask, with exasperation or hope or some other fine emotion, depending upon your temperament and your theological opinions.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please EditorialThe title of this issue’s special theme, ‘Thoughts On Thought’, is partly a tribute to our onetime contributor Antony Flew, who wrote a well-known book called Thinking About Thinking. Flew’s book though was about informal logic including various kinds of fallacies.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please EditorialA famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please EditorialWelcome to our magazine, which this time has a theme of Philosophy and Literature. Firstly, I suppose I had better eat some humble pie.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please EditorialMany years ago, there was a Hollywood blockbuster called Free Willy. It was a movie about a whale called… yes, you guessed it. The choice of name betrayed the studio’s innocence of British slang, for the posters incited friends of mine to fits of giggles.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
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“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”Bertrand Russell
“Philosophy is like a washing machine.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
philosophynow.org | Rick Lewis
Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please Editorialby Rick LewisWelcome to this issue, which has a theme of metaphysics. But what exactly is metaphysics?
