The End of the Beginning by Douglas Penick

From New Humanist: Nietzsche himself turns out to have been a likable sort of guy. Despite his over-the-top persona as an “antichrist”, he always “remained a Christian”, according to Young, if not theologically then at least “emotionally.” And despite his hatred of slipshod scholarship, he had no truck with...

From The Philosophers’ Magazine: If “liberal” is a dirty word then Martha Nussbaum is one of the most profane philosophers alive. An unashamed champion of the value of liberal democracy, Nussbaum is also an enthusiastic advocate of providing the kind of humanistic education that prepares students to be good...

by Michael Azar From Eurozine: In The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus seeks his own answer to the question that Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche have bequeathed to us: is it possible to live without God, without any hope of salvation as death looms? At first sight the outlook is...

SETI's Challenge to Religion | by Paul Davies

Big Questions Online

 The author argues that the discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe would pose real problems for our anthrocentric religions, but there does seem to be a...