Aili Bresnahan
Forum
Philosophy in Danger
Jennifer Saul
Solving Cyber Conflicts
Mariarosaria Taddeo argues that it takes political power in information societies.
Will Technology Help Us Transcend the Human Condition?
Michael Hauskeller and Kyle McNease argue that it’s not so easy to see what’s ahead.
Sharing Ourselves into Oblivion
Roberto Simanowski on how new technologies take us out of the present.
Love Will Find A Way
Mark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. His latest book is The Idler Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Idler Books). This essay is adapted from his book Love: All That Matters (Hodder Education).
Love as Religion
Simon May argues that love has taken on the role of a new god in Western thought.
Unrequited Love
Jeremy Stangroom asks, is it really better to have loved and lost?
Crazy About You
Berit Brogaard asks, does the idea of irrational love make sense?
Our Children, Our Selves
Jean Kazez takes up the connection between parental love and self-love.
Issue 70 Forum: Love
Philosophers have been going on about love almost since the beginning. The pre-Socratics had odd things to say about love as a force binding the basic elements of matter to one another, but of course it’s Plato’s Symposium that really started us thinking about love, though it hasn’t just been the Greeks. Philosophers as varied […]
Love and Acceptance
Tony Milligan on what it means to be loved for who you are.