On the occasion of the cancellation of Woody Allen's book publication by Hachette Publishing, some thoughts on free speech, censorship, and the totalitarianism of morality defenders.

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?

Can a child understand complex philosophical concepts? Why is it important for children to come into contact with rationality? How can they take their first steps into the magical world of ideas? Aristotle used to say that philosophy starts with questioning. Questions such as "why?", "who am I?", "what's to blame?", "why is this bad?" are very common and depending on the age of the children, they require serious answers.

Businesses act and grow within a market system characterized by synergies and complementarity. In a complementary system, I cannot cause damage to someone, without harming myself as well, in the short or in the long term.

In recent years the philosophy for beginners books, are becoming popular and best sellers. In this article, I am presenting and evaluating some of these publications. Keywords: Philosophy for beginners Gounaris, Α. ((2010). Philosophy for the Μasses. 

Philosophy for beginners books are a good reason to entry in a different world. A world of ideas and values that you cannot perceive in everyday life. We can imagine these books as a key, not as enlightenment, but rather as a chance to unlock the reality and find out what is behind the door. In this article I am presenting eight popular books, published in Greek between 2010 and 2012.

If someone browse the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders (DSM) over the years will conclude that our tolerance to what we are considering healthy is eventually decreasing. This discussion is about behavior related mental disorders that we evaluate as undesirable and therefore unhealthy. 

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. 

Following the recent global financial crisis, there was extensive debate on companies social and moral responsibility. In Kantian terms, to evaluate an act as moral, the person who is acting has to be free. The fact that a company has to adopt principles for a reason (for example: "to" build a social profile or 'to' gain a profit or "to" create an image or loyalty etc) cannot be considered as a free choice of moral principles. According to the Kantian theory, if a person choose his principles for empirical reasons, (in this case to yield some sort of profit) this choice cannot considered as moral choice because in fact this choice is non-free.