Navigator, April, 2003

Editor's Desk

In This Issue

Letters to the Editor

Ideas and Issues:

The Company of One's Kind by Russell LaValle
By seeking to deny members of the Augusta National Golf Course the pleasures they derive from the company of other men, Martha Burk is demanding that human nature be lashed to a Procrustean bed of her own rationalistic construction.

Feature Story:

Weighing War by William Thomas
Philosophy cannot tell a nation's leaders whether they should launch a war, but a philosophical commentator can set forth the purposes and principles that ought to govern the resort to arms and can also suggest the main factors that public officials ought to weigh. William Thomas does both, using Iraq and North Korea as his test cases.

Perspectives:

Cultural Calendar

William Shakespeare's Generous Imagination by Susan McCloskey

The Life-Centered Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson by Robert Bidinotto

Soundings

Logbook:

Objectivism is Out of This World
After the tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, Dennis Tito, the first private citizen-explorer to pay his own way to space, called together an elite group of some forty experts, space advocates, and businessmen to consider the future of man in space.

Summer Seminar 2003
The final deadlines for TOC's Summer Seminar 2003 are fast approaching. And don't forget that this year, for the first time, TOC is welcoming exhibitors to the seminar, to display their books, products, and services.