by Chara Scroope The following video includes themes of suicide which may trigger some viewers. Note: Both Exordium and the…
Kantian Aesthetics and Morality: A Comparison of the Beautiful and the Sublime
by David Fan At the start of Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant presents to us the “great chasm that separates the…
Little Aphrodisiac
by Marnie Ball Open. A whimsical woodland Of pastel beauty, and secret pleasure. Close. Cherish the silence A moment for…
The True Point of Departure in the Early Modern Period
by Rory Brown This is an edited reprint of an original version of this essay which originally appeared in AustLit…
Existential Gravity: Relationships and Nietzsche’s Eternal Return in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Serena May The Unbearable Lightness of Being, written by Milan Kundera, expands on the concepts of existential weight and…
Plato’s Bakery: A Dialogue on Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
by Sourena Borzoo Plato: Hi, welcome to The Realm of Form’s Bakery. What can I get you? Sourena: Hey, could I just…
Understanding Climate Activism using Arendt’s Theory of Political Judgement
by Talia Fell More and more, people are turning to protests and activism to send a message to their government…
Nietzsche on Nihilism: Terrifying Reality or Liberating Opportunity?
by Thomas Ross While Friedrich Nietzsche is considered to be one of the most important philosophers to have lived in…
Contents: Issue 7
Issue 7: June 2019 Philosophy as a Way of Life — Arden Cadallo-Dent This essay explores the philosophical methods known…
Is Being Worth It? Martin Heidegger’s Deeper Ontology
By Ryan Morgan-Kleinman Throughout Martin Heidegger’s long and tumultuous career, the quest to reveal the true nature of ‘Being’ lay…
Lyotard: A Rephrasing of Silence and the ‘Political’
By Tia Wolf “One of the aims of critical Philosophy is to dispute traditional modes of thinking and the historical…
On The Modern University as an Ideological State Apparatus
By Drew Pavlou The modern university is cold, alienating and lifeless. The neoliberal university serialises students, stripping them of their…
Poetic Reflections
By Anonymous Mind’s Eye Racing Through a Grove of Words Mind’s eye racing through a grove of words, and bushels formed…
Examining the Compatibility of Dewey’s Pragmatism and Hegel’s Idealism
By Louis Altena An emergent area of inquiry has situated itself around the compatibility of idealist thought with pragmatism. Although…
Dewey and Buber: An I-Thou Relation
By Samuel Brabham The American pragmatist, John Dewey, and German Existentialist, Martin Buber, were writing during the same period, yet…
Philosophy as a Way of Life
By Arden Cadallo-Dent In philosophy, there exist two different yet connected philosophical methods. The first is the Delphic ‘know thyself’…
Subjects with Desire: The MLF, and Luce Irigaray’s ‘Woman as Commodity’
By Codie Pia Despite frequent attempts to dismiss sexuality as a topic for private consideration, its significance for human bodies…
The Inequities of Knowledge in Liberal Democracy
By Brooke Jordan The modern liberal democracy has failed democracy itself. This failure is not the result of misuse or…