Making hard choices
Zan Boag: When you first started out making decisions about what you were going to do with your life, you had to make a difficult choice as a young student: law or philosophy. You chose law but then…
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Winners of the 50 prizes for our 50th edition
To celebrate the publication of our 50th edition, we're giving away 50 prizes to subscribers, with first prize a 50-edition subscription (up to our…
Being mortal
Zan Boag: What responsibility does a society have for the health of its individuals? Where do individual responsibility and societal responsibility begin and end?…
Mindset and manifestation
But the Stoic endorsement of mindset ends there. They would have us put more space between input and output; that is to say, they…
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Are we free?
What’s your view on free will? Do you have one – and, if so, how much confidence do you have in it? Does it…
Damned if you don’t
There is an infamous passage in the nineteenth century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s book Either/Or that declares: Marry, and you will regret it; don’t…
Optimising mutualism
“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of…
Transformative grief
Zan Boag: I’d like to start with the various ways that one can grieve. I’d like to get a definition of the grieving process,…
The game of life
When I was growing up in the 1980s, my family and I sometimes played a board game called ‘The Game of Life’. Rather than…
New Philosopher #42 ‘Loss’
“Great lords, wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.” - William Shakespeare If being…
Flourish by Antonia Case selling out fast
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
Australian book tour for Antonia Case’s Flourish
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
New Philosopher celebrates 10 years
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at…
