The World Embracing Hope Foundation is proud to sponsor an ongoing competition in order to achieve a Universal Philosophy for humankind.




The World Embracing Hope Foundation hosts yearly, quarterly and monthly competitions in three separate categories. In addition, there is also a five-year competition. Details concerning each of these competitions are as follows:


  1. Gallery - Monthly

    Illustrations depicting various philosophical concepts are welcome. Please include a short (approx. 25 words) synopsis with each submission. The winning submission will be displayed on the Gallery page. The winner of this competition can choose any single volume from the Prizes: Category A section listed below.

  2. Articles - Monthly

    Written critiques and depictions (approx. 3000 words) of the impact various universal philosophy models would have upon the individual, humankind, and other life forms that might exist within the Universe. The winning submission will be displayed on the Articles page. The winner of this competition can choose any single volume from the Prizes: Category B section listed below.

  3. Philosophies - Abstracts - Yearly

    The five-year competition listed in the next section is the W.E. Hope Foundation's main competition. Because it takes place only once every five years, we have included a yearly Philosophies - Abstracts competition. Its purpose is to showcase abstracts or outlines of a potential universal philosophy. The winners of the competition are automatically entered into the Five-Year Universal Philosophy Competition in 2003. Please refer to the section below for further information. The winning submission will be displayed on the Articles page. The winner of this competition can choose two volumes from the Prizes: Category A & B sections listed below.

  4. Universal Philosophy Competition - Five-Year

    The purpose of the Five-Year Universal Philosophy Competition is to develop a universal philosophy. The winning entry will be posted on this web site and will remain in place until it is displaced through competition. The winner of this competition can choose any single volume from the Prizes: Category C section listed below.




Two teams of judges will independently review submissions to the competition and choose the ten best entries. A third team will then choose the best entry from the ten short-listed.



  1. The World Embracing Hope Foundation provides all of the prizes.

  2. Sales generated from "Lift Your Thoughts,” which was broadcast on WALE Radio 990 am this year. Tapes of the show are available from Daniel J. Shepard, c/o Proctor Publications, P.O. Box 2498, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106.

  3. Board members, their families, and relatives may enter the competition but are not eligible for prizes.


    Prizes - Category A:

    An Introduction to Western Philosophy - Ideas and Argument from Plato to Popper - Anthony Flew

    The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener - Martin Gardner

    Guide to Philosophy - C. E. M. Joad

    Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers – From Structuralism to Postmodernism - John Lechte

    The Examined Life – Philosophical Meditations - Robert Nozick

    The Republic of Plato - Allan Bloom

    Mind, Language and Society – Philosophy in the Real World - John Searle

    Philosophical Arguments - Charles Taylor

    The Philosophers – Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought - Ben-Ami Scharfstein


    Prizes - Category B:

    The Dream of Reason - A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance - Anthony Gottlieb

    From Shakespeare to Existentialism - Walter Kaufmann

    The Continental Philosophy Reader - Edited by: Richard Kearney & Mara Rainwater

    What Does it all Mean? - A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy - Thomas Nagel

    From Modernism to Postmodernism – An Anthology - Edited by: Lawrence Cahoone

    A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations - Edited by: A. J. Ayer & Jane O’Grady

    Confessions of a Philosopher – A Journey through Western Philosophy - Bryan Magee

    The Proper Study of Mankind – An Anthology of Essays - Isaiah Berlin

    A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

    Modern Movements in European Philosophy - Richard Kearney


    Prizes - Category C:

    Masterpieces of World Philosophy - Edited by: Frank Magill

    The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Edited by: Ted Honderich

    A History of Philosophy (9 Volumes) - Fred Copleston



  1. Please send your entries by mail to Daniel J. Shepard, c/o Proctor Publications, P.O. Box 2498, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. or via e-mail. Please see Contact page for further details.

  2. All winning entries will be automatically entered into subsequent competitions held at this web site.




Ownership of material submitted to this web site remains the sole property of the authors. No permission to publish material from this web site is granted without the expressed written permission of the authors.







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