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Can video games be philosophical?
Some video games are said to be philosophical. Despite video games having received some attention in academic philosophy, that contention has not...
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Being at One: a Philosophical Anthropology of Solitude
We can see personhood as a philosophical and historical struggle between positive and negative forms of ‘being at one’, a struggle most succinctly...
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Can Nāstikas Taste Āstika Poetry? Tagore’s Poetry and the Critique of Secularity
This paper asks the following question: can an atheist reader fully taste the aesthetic meaning of poetry written by a theist author? This question...
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The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Poetry
Feminella explores the ways in which Schiller both explicitly and implicitly addresses philosophical concepts in the poems “Ode to Joy,” “The Gods of...
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From Anekānta-vāda to Sarva-tantra-sva-tantra: Pluralism About Views and Philosophical Systems
This article discusses the unique practice of many philosophers in classical India to write on several philosophical and religious systems, each time...
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Sympathy, Resonance, and the Use of Natural Correspondences in Philosophical Argument: A Comparison of Greco-Roman and Early Chinese Sources
Thinkers from the Chinese and Greco-Roman traditions posit that disparate objects throughout the cosmos have mutual affinities. In the Stoic...
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The Development of Schiller’s Philosophical Attitude: Schiller’s Philosophical Education
Schiller’s philosophical attitude developed early on and remained unswerving thereafter, being unaffected by either intellectual or personal events....
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Schiller and Philosophical Anthropology
“Philosophical anthropology” is an unusual lemma for a Schiller handbook. In the context of the philosophical terminology in the German language,...
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Is praise possible in modernist poetry? Mandelstam through the lens of Hannah Arendt
The aim of this article is to examine the thought of Hannah Arendt and the work of Osip Mandelstam from a unified conceptual stance. Arendt provides...
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The Work of Words: Poetry, Language and the Dawn of Community
This essay explores the ontological movement of poetry, its language and words, by establishing a dialogue with the thought of three Japanese...
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Postsecularity and the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, and Carol Ann Duffy
This article responds to philosophers and literary critics who espouse concepts about an endemic postsecularity in western nations that encroach...
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On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (1795/96)
While working on Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, Schiller was already devising and drafting an essay that derived a special theory of...
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‘Childish Frivolity’: Plato’s Socrates on the Interpretation of Poetry
Scholars have wrestled with the very troubling but also rather long passage in the Protagoras in which Socrates offers an interpretation of a poem by...
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Can Nāstikas Taste Āstika Poetry? Tagore’s Poetry and the Critique of Secularity
This paper asks the following question: can an atheist reader fully taste the aesthetic meaning of poetry written by a theist author? This question...
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Schiller and His Philosophical Context: Pleasure, Form, and Freedom
Schiller’s interests in theology, poetry, and literature influenced the way he responded to the ethics and aesthetics of the British philosopher the...
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The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements
In 1869, two distinguished scientists, Dimitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer, discovered a certain periodicity among the chemical characteristics of the...
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Nagel’s Philosophical Development
Ernest Nagel played a key role in bridging the gap between American philosophy and logical empiricism. He introduced European philosophy of science...
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Christology and the Modern World: Science, Poetry, Art, and Jesus the Christ
To overcome the conflict between modern consciousness and the biblical world it seems necessary to create new images and metaphors which include the...
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Rorty’s Early Philosophical Papers (1955–1972)
The roots of Rorty’s mature philosophy are explored in a discussion of his early philosophical papers and reviews. His lifelong interest in...