Philosophical Reflections

Margaret Thatcher is dead, and while conservative MPs celebrate her life time achievements and the state is preparing for a bombastic funer...

According to Voltaire, an ‘Italian sage’ once claimed that ‘the better is the enemy of the good.’ This is often misunderstood as a call fo...

The odd question whether angels have genitals, which already occupied the minds of countless scholastic theologians, was raised again by the...

I spent the last ten days reading and marking a large number of essays for a course I’m teaching on the „philosophy of morality“. One of th...

I just finished writing a chapter for a volume of commentaries on the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's masterwork "The Wo...

Can one be moral without believing in God or at least in something , some unknown power that gives permanent significance to what we do? I...

The Saturday edition of the British newspaper The Guardian comes with a magazine, the Guardian Weekend , which always contains a standardis...