Philosophers - Rationale Magazine

27 Jun

Michel Foucault’s philosophy still speaks to a world saturated with social media

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics...

12 Nov

Philosophy & Psychology

Philosophical fashions and conceptual progress

31/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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Many years ago, as an undergraduate student of philosophy, I was invited to participate in a special seminar for honours students conve...

24 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

How analytic philosophers sought to slough off the dead weight of history

24/06/2023
By Andrew Milne
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Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised arou...

22 Jan

Business & Economics

How the philosophy of the past can help us imagine the economy of the future

22/01/2023
By Helen McCabe
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The economy keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons — stories about rising prices, supply shortages and a loomin...

10 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

Will understanding Hegel become any easier?

10/12/2022
By Robert Stern
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There has been much excitement at the discovery of a treasure trove of notes from the lectures of the great German idealist phil...

05 Nov

History

Tolstoy’s last years

04/08/2022
By Reg Naulty
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Tolstoy’s death in 1910 occurred just seven years before the Russian Revolution. His last two essays What’s To Be Done? and I Cannot B...

09 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

‘Living well’ and having a ‘good life’

09/09/2022
By Dr Myint Zan
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Ronald Dworkin On 14 February 2013 one of the foremost legal, moral and political philosophers of the past several decades Professor R...

19 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Seneca’s classical wisdom on how to die

09/09/2022
By Paul Monk
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca was one of the more notable Roman philosophers. He was born in 4 BCE, which happens to be the same year that seri...

12 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Heidegger on death, demise and Dasein

09/09/2022
By Paul Monk
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Martin Heidegger is notoriously difficult to decipher and has been accused by many critics of both obscurantism and anti-Semitism. He c...

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