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Brian Leiter interviewed on Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Occupy and more

'In the Nietzschean view, our conscious life is largely superficial, largely epiphenomenal'... Brian Leiter, author of the Leiter Reports weblog and an expert on Nietzsche, ranges widely in this long interview. Read more...

Michael Sandel on Tax and Justice

What's the point of taxation? To raise revenue for the common good, says Michael Sandel. Read more...

The Moral Psychology of War

Nancy Sherman explores the moral anguish of soldiers and the psychological consequences of stoicism. Read more...

Charles Taylor on Religion, Secularism and Community

Charles Taylor thinks that there's more to life than the instrumentally rational perspective. Read more...

Pascal Bruckner on Happiness

The social pressure to be happy makes us unhappy, suggests the French philosopher  Pascal Bruckner, author of Bitter Moon. Read more....

Michael Sandel on Justice

Who should get the best flutes? Michael Sandel discusses Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle in this interview about justice transcribed from the Philosophy Bites podcast. Read more...

Julian Young Reconsidering Nietzsche

Julian Young, author of a recent biography of Nietzsche, gave an interesting interview in Harpers last autumn in which he explained, amongst other things, what it means to say that Nietzsche was a 'plural realist'. Read more...