How can a Jewish woman, persecuted and imprisoned by the Nazis, cause negative reactions when she closely follows the trial of the Nazi “High Priest” for his crimes against humanity? How does her unconventional thinking and her daring to see "clearly" manage to disgruntle everyone, and how, while disgruntling everyone, can she still be regarded as one of the most important figures of political philosophy of the 20th century?

An issue that preoccupied me in the face of this debate, is whether one can think or talk about the Mission Box without discussing Alexandrou and possibly the opposite as well. Is the Mission Box a political allegory or is it more than that? I propose to view the Box as an existential drama.

Can abstention from the election process be ethically assessed? The political nature of man inspired by Aristotle -as we have inherited it from interpretations based on Hegelian analysis- implies a necessary participation in the political process. If man is by nature a political animal, then participation in elections is mandatory. But is this self-evident? And if so, what are the ethical criteria for voting?

The disapproval of violence contained in its very concept (as a force directed against something or conflicting with something) hides a regulatory dimension which is manufactured and not self-evident. What I am trying to explain in this article is the logical error that lies behind acts of violence and not its moral assessment.

This essay, attempts to outline the philosophical basis of the Murray Bookchin’ s theory, the fundamental principles of social ecology and communalism and the main objections of "green party" environmentalists against the social ecology movement and vice versa. 

As with any other art form, it is dangerous -if not foolish- to evaluate literature in ethical terms, even when it comes to extreme erotica or even pornography. However, the work itself can in some cases highlight , insinuate or straightforwardly pose ethical questions, upon which the reader can either stumble or casually walk by.

Justine is written just before the French Revolution. The novel reveals the author's contiguity with Thomas Hobbes, portraying the inherent evil nature of mankind. Contrary to his contemporary philosopher Jean - Jacques Rousseau, who considered that the nature of mankind is noble, de Sade defends hedonism as the “summum bonum” of a selfish and beyond morality human being.

This essay, attempts to compose a picture of the problem of non-"normal" sexual preferences, desires or acts, called "perversions" (or paraphilias) and how they relate to moral judgments, the good and the evil, the fair or unfair, etc. Firstly it examines how happened to consider today, some sexual preferences natural, and some others unnatural, and focuses in constructivistic view of the "implantation of perversions”. 

This is a advertising article about a poetry event, organized at Dasein in 2011. At this event, titled: Prostibulo Poetico, participated poets and philosophers from Greece, Spain and US. Original publication bookpress.gr

The Cartesian meditations, platonic ideas, body-mind problem, philosophical theories of time, Escher's design paradoxes, and some ethical problems, compose the canvas of Christopher Nolan's new film titled: Inception. 

Unlike Epicurus, who he is attempting to ease the fear and pain of death, Heidegger makes death a fundamental element of the Being. Dasein, as Being-Towards-Death faces the certainty of death and escapes from the evreyday routine to make life meaningful.

This is an attempt to classified the classic arguments for the proof of existence or inexistence of God. Firstly are listed analytically, the cosmological and ontological arguments and their rebuttals, and then the arguments of Kant and Sartre. Finally, are presented the pragmatic arguments (Pascal - William James) and noted the analytic philosophers objections (such as Ayer) according which any answer to the question "Does God Exist?" is meaningless. 

Why might a degree in philosophy be worth more in the future than a degree in computer science? As artificial intelligence advances towards the «automation of automation», the capacity to write and refine its own code, the distinctly human advantage will lie in the ability to pose the right questions, to define the appropriate parameters, and to assess the meaning and purpose of any given process. [ATHENS VOICE, 2025]

On July 23, 2025, when the White House released its Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence (AI), aimed at enabling its rapid and unhindered development free from legislative constraints, many wondered whether this marked yet another dangerous step for the future of AI or a political initiative capable of «making America great again.» The concise, twenty-three-page plan proposes, among other things, the formulation of policies that would favour rather than inhibit the advancement of AI, reversing the overregulatory stance of the Biden administration by removing what it characterises as «unnecessary» regulatory and bureaucratic obstacles.

This paper explores the application of Aristotelian virtue, as a quality of excellence and as a key notion in ethics, to AI systems as classified in the EU AI Act. It suggests that the Aristotelian concept of virtue can be effectively applied to the design, training, operation, and use of AI systems, and proposes an ‘AI Seal of Excellence’ certification process for “Virtuous Agents” [CONATUS, 2025]