Being Human It began with fire The south of England doesn’t get particularly cold in winter, but temperatures do sometimes lurk below freezing for a few […] Issue #024: balance
Being Human NP31 ‘Space’ digital edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP31: Space
Balance New Philosopher China launches “Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.” Martial […] Issue #024: balance
Being Human On purpose Interviewee: Gregg D. Caruso Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: Before we delve into your ideas about free will, I […] NP29: Purpose
Being Human Power scripts There were scripts I learned very early while growing up in an African-American community in the urban South. In the […] NP21 digital: Power
Being Human Humans of the Anthropocene By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Human trafficking By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Doing away with death By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Caught in the web By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Defining ourselves By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Who are we behind closed doors? In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Are you just a story? In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human The commercial self It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Would you upload yourself? By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human Do you really know yourself? “Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human You are not who you think you are You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […] NP26 digital: Change
Being Human Invest in your masterpiece – yourself Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […] Previous editions
