The Voice in the Ear

Conscience, Hamlet felt, could make cowards of us all. Nietzsche agreed, seeing it as a conspiracy to rein in the strong and free-spirited. And yet…

Meet the Replicants

Research, backed by large financial investment, is forging ahead to turn fiction into fact and reproduce human intelligence in androids that approximate to humans. What…

World Literature

The God in the I

The Estonian aristocrat Hermann Keyserling was recognised as a leading intellectual in Europe and America in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1911,…

World Art / Culture

Philosophy on the Boulevard

The bloom of Existentialism may have faded today - though its presence is still felt in literary work - but fifty years ago every fashionable…

World Art / Culture

Do Right Man

An initiative sponsored by President Higgins rightly locates ethics as not just a matter of personal behaviour or minimalist professional codes, but as forming the…

World Art / Culture

Deeper than God

Dworkin argues that, as well as religious theists, there are many others who because they believe the universe is inherently ordered while at the same…

Irish Politics

Do the right thing

The debate over ethics and the role it might or might not play in economic life sparked by recent comments from President Higgins could be…

The Opening to Others

Believers make use of supernatural stories to give detailed content to and make more tangible the sense of openness to the transcendent, openness to strangers.

Mind And Mystery

In a BBC Four documentary (Pol Pot’s Executioner: Welcome to Hell – May 2011), a torturer said that the only way he could have tortured…

Shedding The Ego

It is to literature we have to look to convey an experience for which there are no direct words, notably to its resources within tone…