the meaningfulness of religion’s language is taking part in a form of life. without it, words, language and religious beliefs have no meaning at all. perceiving a religious belief and judge about it only in light of a form of life becomes possible. form of life as kai nielsen in his famous article “wittgensteinian fideism” (1967) explains, if viewed as a whole, could not be objected, because ea...

Disclosures: Paul Wicks is just barely a millennial, which he thinks entitles him to make fun of his own generation (and to just be entitled generally). No patients were trolled during the writing of this article. Competing interests: I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that I have no competing interests. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not ex...

a subject on which he has also written a book (reviewed in our issue of Summer 1952). His description of his own condition, of his alternating moods and admittedly paranoid ideas are fascinating. Since discharge he has become an M.P. and is now devoting his interests to attacking the laws on mental illness, in particular those which interfere with the liberty of the subject and those which, in ...

We propose that people treat prejudice as more legitimate when it seems rationalistic-that is, linked to a group's pursuit of collective interests. Groups that appear to be coherent and unified wholes (entitative groups) are most likely to have such interests. We thus predicted that belonging to an entitative group licenses people to express prejudice against outgroups. Support for this idea ca...

the present essay is a critical study of zagzebski’s reading and criticism of plantinga’s virtue-epistemology. zagzebski, on the account of her definition of knowledge and the role that she assigns to ‘volition’ and ‘awareness’ in virtuous acts, along with her acceptance of the uniformity of moral and epistemic virtue, challenges plantinga’s theory of knowledge. zagzebski believes that although...

The Abbé de Choisy was one of the most intriguing figures in Louis XIII’s entourage and, most notably, Louis XIV’s court. A prolific author, he composed the Sun King’s memoirs, his own personal memoirs, and in his old age wrote an ambitious twelve volume-work entitled Histoire de l’Eglise. Although he led a ecclesiastic career, his writing and intellectual interests reached well beyond the Chur...