Since 2016, the conservative intellectual movement has seen a resurgence of interest in political philosophy. Foundational questions about the nature of liberty, the limits of markets, and the purpose ...

UB faculty member Richard A. Cohen has been honored with a new scholarly volume dedicated to his lifelong work on the ...

Russell Jacoby’s attack on the standing of Hannah Arendt totally misreads both the overall significance of her work and the value of the works within her canon (“Hannah Arendt’s Fame Rests on the ...

Philosophy has always been humanity’s go-to guide for tackling life’s biggest questions. Be it pondering the meaning of ...

One of the most notorious features of the French ancien régime was the practice of venality of office -- that is, the buying and selling of state offices that often served as a ticket into the ...

In Drexel’s BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics program, we start from the idea that the economy is fundamentally political, politics is fundamentally economic and both are shaped by ...

Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Mar., 2007), pp. 101-127 (27 pages) This paper takes the Prometheus story in chapter 12 of Leviathan as ...

Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Scranton, whose patrician features and baronial name do not prevent her from wearing all the fantastic headgear which fashion prescribes, is in many ways symbolic of the ...

Cryptocurrencies are best understood by examining the community structure and cultural values they exhibit, rather than the economic activity they create. Cryptocurrencies are really "cryptocultures" ...

Examine complex problems, challenge ideas, and communicate clearly in RIT’s versatile philosophy degree. Dynamic Curriculum: Provides a thorough grounding in core areas of philosophy (history of ...