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INTRODUCING OUR NEW ISSUE: April/May 2025 (Issue 167)
https://philosophynow.org/issues/167

Issue 167 has a lead article asking what it means to be human, and the essays that follow consider a range of the most fundamental aspects of human experience: hope, guilt, love, empathy, sympathy, and pain. Socrates claimed that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living.” That might be going a little far, but perhaps understanding these human experiences a little better can help us live better too.

In this issue we also have a special feature with three articles on non-Western philosophical traditions: Islamic philosophy, Buddhist ethics and the Australian Aboriginal tradition. In addition there are some great articles on the influential 20th century Scottish philosopher John Macmurray, on the nature of consciousness, on the pursuit of happiness, and even on the importance of green spaces for doing philosophy. Plus book and film reviews, letters, “Existential Comics”, a short story; and more.

RickLewis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:50 am INTRODUCING OUR NEW ISSUE: April/May 2025 (Issue 167)
https://philosophynow.org/issues/167

Issue 167 has a lead article asking what it means to be human, and the essays that follow consider a range of the most fundamental aspects of human experience: hope, guilt, love, empathy, sympathy, and pain. Socrates claimed that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living.” That might be going a little far, but perhaps understanding these human experiences a little better can help us live better too.

In this issue we also have a special feature with three articles on non-Western philosophical traditions: Islamic philosophy, Buddhist ethics and the Australian Aboriginal tradition. In addition there are some great articles on the influential 20th century Scottish philosopher John Macmurray, on the nature of consciousness, on the pursuit of happiness, and even on the importance of green spaces for doing philosophy. Plus book and film reviews, letters, “Existential Comics”, a short story; and more.

Oh, nostalgia. The cover looks like it came out of the 20's or 30's of last century.
If it were up to date, would we not see something like human brains splattered against some subway wall?
Anyway, A mind is potentially the most powerful life support system possible. It is an information processor which works, not only as Plato explained, by as demonstrated by the computer today.
This means that the human mind's only power is literacy, stated long ago as judgment. During evolution, a mind starts off as any other animal's mind, and it evolves. We are mastered by evolution, We evolve until we control the environment. From slave to master through information processing.
Relation to self is inadmissible, yet the mainstream intellect demands illusions and delusions, because they cannot think any better than that. What part of that fact is due, not to biological inheritance, by by social demands and education? You can never know until you uphold the standard, and to uphold it, you have to learn it.
The rising suicide rate of children is a clue to a sickness maintained by the stupidity of educators. We learn by experience, not the deprivation of it.

The greatest source of environmental pollution today, is our educational systems.

The good old days, children started learning by their own hands, whole body emersion in reality.
Technology, ill used, is technology that is removing our future.