Just War Theory
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy gives an account of just war theory. War is a profoundly destructive institution, yet most
By Ryan Jenkins|2019-03-28T04:45:44+00:00June 15th, 2018|Justice, Theory|0 Comments
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy gives an account of just war theory. War is a profoundly destructive institution, yet most
By Victor Wallis|2019-03-30T21:09:51+00:00June 8th, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
Like many others, I sometimes feel paralyzed by the enormity of the environmental challenge. How to break through this?
By Glen Paul Hammond|2019-03-28T04:47:51+00:00June 8th, 2018|Theory|0 Comments
Man’s commonest weakness, [is] his aversion to being unpleasantly conspicuous, pointed at, shunned, as being on the unpopular side.
By Hendrik van der Breggen|2019-03-28T23:44:54+00:00May 25th, 2018|Meta, Theory|0 Comments
By: Hendrik van der Breggen For some people, the relationship between faith and reason is like oil and water—they don’t
By Richard Oxenberg|2019-03-29T05:04:29+00:00May 25th, 2018|Theory|5 Comments
By: Richard Oxenberg I. Introduction: What Is Truth? In the Gospel of John, Jesus says to Pontius Pilate: “I was
By Glen Paul Hammond|2019-03-29T04:56:06+00:00May 18th, 2018|Theory|0 Comments
By: Glen Paul Hammond The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.G.K. Chesterton Sonia Maria
By Hendrik van der Breggen|2019-03-29T05:58:47+00:00March 2nd, 2018|Theory|0 Comments
“Be tolerant” is today’s oft-heard moral imperative. This principle of tolerance sounds good, but careful thinkers should ask: Is it sound?
By Jared Marcel Pollen|2019-03-29T00:46:32+00:00February 23rd, 2018|Practice, Theory|1 Comment
A politician should enter office saying, “we will not compromise on this, this, and this,” only to find themselves, by force of circumstance and political education, compromising on many of them. To be able to hold this contradiction together with no loss of integrity or decency is the task of any good leader. Thus, a politician who does not even have any ostensibly unshakable values to shake is not only unfit – they are precisely unfit, in the most basic way.
By Alex Knepper|2019-03-29T05:57:54+00:00February 16th, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
Liberals need to be able to answer the question: Why liberalism today? What kind of life does liberalism help to enable, and why is it desirable?
By Mary Townsend and Political Animal|2019-03-29T17:09:22+00:00January 29th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Theory|0 Comments
Mary Townsend, the author of The Woman Question in Plato’s Republic, discusses philosopher-queens, Socrates' radical solution to the question of women's place in society.