What philosophical texts and other work would you recommend to someone who was trying to get a feel for the major contours of the debate of "justice?" Is that too large a subject to try to encompass? Is it a speciality in philosophy?

If slavery is so intrinsically (and obviously) wrong, why did it take so long to recognize this? I pose this to the philosophers who rant for moral realism and against moral relativism, and especially to the philosophers with religious sympathies.

I was having an argument with a religious friend of mine and I told him that I didn't think I could argue with him anymore because his belief in God was irrational. He replied that my belief in reason was irrational. Is belief in reason irrational?

Does the existence of this website suggest that the panelists agree with the accusation often levelled against modern academic philosophy that it has become too insulated from regular people by its own jargon and institutionalisation, and gotten too far from the Socratic method of marketplace philosophy?

Hi I'm just a 15 year-old kid in PA and I was wondering if you could verify what I believe to be the meaning of life. I believe that the meaning of life is to search for the meaning of life, because doesn't that give us a meaning to our lives? And if we finally find a meaning to life, what else do we have to live for? But as long as we keep searching for the meaning of life, we have a meaning of life. Do you agree or disagree?

What is the link between rationality and free will. Can one exist without the other?

Me and a friend were arguing about this question: Is sex ultimately for reproduction or pleasure? I said reproduction, but he argues that you can have sex and never have a child, which would prove sex is for pleasure and children are the aftermath of a choice when having sex (to ejaculate and fertilize the egg). Is there any way to clear this up with the logic of evolution (to evolve, one must reproduce)?

When you get past the rhetoric on 'most convincing arguments and logical reasoning', are people's preferences for a certain type of philosophy merely subjective 'taste'?

Is there a way to prove reincarnation? Has the possibility been explored?

Do you agree with this statement: There is no such thing as bad art?