MEDDLING John Lachs Vanderbilt University The great pleasures of life---try sex, food and money---are as nothing compared with the delight of running other people’s lives. Making others think and feel and do what we want affords a rush of satisfaction. People measure their significance by their power over others. … [Read more...]

Do you want to experience philosophy in the streets of Berlin? This city is full of the streets, buildings, monuments, cemeteries, squares, others that are somehow associated with philosophy and philosophers. We would like to explore this, so we start with the project of free "Berlin Streets Philosophical Guide". You will be able to download the first edition soon from this website. We hope also to develop the guide on regular basis - it should be a living book, to which you could also … [Read more...]

The essays that we publish at this place refer to the practical philosophy. Some of them will refer to the work of our patron, John Lachs. We hope that our website will contribute to the promotion of philosophy both in academia and outside of it.  We thank professor Tom Buford, Furman University, for his permission to publish his text here. Tom Buford: Are there costs to the relevance of philosophy to life? That question reveals a danger of thinking of Philosophy as directly relevant to … [Read more...]

The question whether there is a place for philosophers nowadays and how much influence they exercise in our everyday life seems as valid as it was 25 centuries ago in the time of Socrates. It was also the leitmotif of the conference devoted to the practical philosophy of John Lachs (presently leading American pragmatist), during which academic world met everyday life. John Lachs's Practical Philosophy Conference Speakers, August 11-13, 2015 John Lachs’s Practical Philosophy Conference … [Read more...]