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The Express Tribune
January 23, 2018
Attended by students and teachers who were once taught by Dr Arif, the auditorium exuded frustration and sadness of losing a brave soul. However, the chief guest chair remained empty as the Karachi University Vice-Chancellor failed to turn up for the meeting. A political philosopher, Dr Arif is rememberedÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 12, 2018
Back in the early 1970s, political philosopher Michael Walzer argued that Americans not only tolerate but actually want their presidents to “dirty their hands” during times of national emergency if doing so is necessary to protect the nation. Walzer's position has been debated ever since he formulated it,ÃÂ ...
Irish Times
January 12, 2018
Mary Shelley's illustrious parentage – her mother was the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and her father political philosopher William Godwin – combined with her own literary achievements has ensured that her life is more comprehensively documented than most women of the era. In theÃÂ ...
The Daily Progress
December 25, 2017
Later French and German political philosophers and politicians emphasized other goals such as equality, brotherhood and physical comfort which were pursued by sundry revolutions around the world, with questionable success. To date, the American Revolution and subsequent constitutional addendumÃÂ ...
Herald and News
December 31, 1999
Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755), political philosopher; Daniel Webster (1782-1852), statesman/orator; A.A. Milne (1882-1956), children's author; Cary Grant (1904-1986), actor; Danny Kaye (1911-1987), entertainer; Kevin Costner (1955-), actor; Mark Messier (1961-), hockey player; Dave Attell (1965-),ÃÂ ...
The Week Magazine
December 31, 1999
Few if any books ever published can have promised the reader as much as How to Think, by Professor Alan Jacobs. I hope I am not giving too much away if I say at the outset that it does not entirely succeed in its purpose. It did succeed, however, in inducing this reviewer to consider at some length theÃÂ ...
Richmond Register
December 22, 2017
By the way, an estimated 2 million people died during China's Cultural Revolution. More recent praise for murdering tyrants came from Anita Dunn, President Barack Obama's acting communications director in 2009, who said, “Two of my favorite political philosophers (are) Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa.”.
Huntsville Item
December 21, 2017
By the way, an estimated 2 million people died during China's Cultural Revolution. More recent praise for murdering tyrants came from Anita Dunn, President Barack Obama's acting communications director in 2009, who said, "Two of my favorite political philosophers (are) Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa.".
American Institute for Economic Research (blog)
December 20, 2017
In the 19th century it was used to describe the people who believed in liberty, understood in the individualistic sense of British and French economists and political philosophers such as Adam Smith, John Locke, Jean Baptiste Say, and David Hume. It was a creed unifying the belief in free markets with theÃÂ ...
TES News
December 20, 2017
Political philosopher John Rawls proposed a simple test of whether we have achieved a fair society: if we put ourselves behind what he called the "veil of ignorance", imagining ourselves as a rational being before our own birth, would we feel safe to be born into an unknown context? Probably not.
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 17, 2017
That would mean Chinese Communists now hold all of the advantages that political philosophers ascribe to authoritarian societies, as well as the advantages that accrue to liberal societies in places like Europe, North America, or maritime Asia. They can command and control. Rulers in Beijing can ordainÃÂ ...
The Auburn Plainsman
December 16, 2017
Developments in philosophy have shaped the way we have thought for centuries. Even the principles of the United States as detailed in the Constitution are based first in philosophical theory. The founding fathers were, in a way, political philosophers. So while philosophy may never make a technologicalÃÂ ...
Ricentral.com
December 16, 2017
According to political philosopher Robert Dahl, pluralism is the restricted dispersion of power among many groups of interested and involved citizens. Today's pluralism, however, is distorted into what political philosopher Theodore Lowi calls “interest-group” liberalism. Policies, for example, are judged byÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
December 15, 2017
When we elected Barack Obama president, we selected not only a chief of the executive branch of government, but a chief political philosopher as well. As philosopher-in-chief, Obama could divine the future, could see the arc of history to which the rest of us mortals are blind, and knew just what theÃÂ ...
Toledo Blade
December 14, 2017
Some years ago, the French political philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel surprised the political class of his country by endorsing a socialist for president of France. Since de Jouvenel was a critic of collectivism and schemes of redistribution of wealth, his act was inexplicable to many. But de Jouvenel said theÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 14, 2017
Professor Glen Newey, who has died in a boating accident aged 56, was a combative political philosopher who took a clear-eyed approach to the limitations of liberal democracy, seeking to understand the processes involved when ideals such as toleration and liberty come up against the realities of conflictÃÂ ...
FiveThirtyEight
December 9, 2017
Political philosopher Leo Strauss went so far as to write a letter in 1956 to complain. The journal's editor, Willmoore Kendall, acknowledged there was an “anti-Israel bias among my colleagues, and in Right-wing circles in general.” Although Kendall emphasized that he did not believe that anti-Semitism was ...
Big Think (blog)
December 8, 2017
Anarchy, State, and Utopia. 10. John Rawls (1921-2002). A political philosopher out of Harvard who is often considered the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century. His Magnum Opus, A Theory of Justice, introduced the idea of “Justice as Fairness”, asking us what kind of world we would build if we ...
DeSoto Times-Tribune
December 7, 2017
But too many Americans have become so gullible that they are afraid to even get the facts about which immigrants have done well and improved America, and which have become a burden that can drag us all down. THOMAS SOWELL is an American economist, turned social theorist, political philosopher ...
Citizentribune
December 7, 2017
Today's Birthdays: Linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky is 89. Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne is 86. Actress Ellen Burstyn is 85. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is 80. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson is 77. Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench is 70. Actor-director-producer James Keach is ...
The Boston Globe
December 7, 2017
Today is Thursday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2017. There are 24 days left in the year. Birthdays: Linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky is 89. Actress Ellen Burstyn is 85. Republican Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi is 80. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson is 77. Baseball Hall of Famer ...
The Objective Standard
November 25, 2017
Next up is a powerful blast from a more-distant past: an essay by the great 19th-century British political philosopher Auberon Herbert. Herbert's ...
Tribune-Review
November 25, 2017
Thomas Hobbes, the English political philosopher, claimed in his 1761 book “Leviathan” that we would all lead “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish ...
The Objective Standard
November 24, 2017
Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) was a British political philosopher, writer, and member of Parliament. He recognized and conveyed in many ...
Express.co.uk
November 24, 2017
Political philosopher Thom Brooks said: "With the problems Theresa May has been having at home – with a weak minority government – we ...
Haaretz
November 23, 2017
Immediately after it became apparent that Donald Trump had been elected president of the United States, the political philosopher Mark Lilla ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 22, 2017
... discuss manifestos, such as the Ten Commandments and Christian ethics, as well as the political philosophers Hobbes, Rousseau and Marx.
The Hindu
November 16, 2017
These ideas of the Mahabharata deeply influenced the political philosophers of ancient India. The lecture will briefly review the evolution of the ...
The Bucknellian
November 16, 2017
... was quoting works by political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith, as well as citing passages from the United States Constitution ...
The Hindu
November 16, 2017
These ideas of the Mahabharata deeply influenced the political philosophers of ancient India. The lecture will briefly review the evolution of the ...
Falls Church News Press
November 16, 2017
The remarkable if often misunderstood anti-fascist modern German-born American political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), best ...
OUPblog (blog)
November 16, 2017
We have also put together an interactive map with some of the many fascinating political philosophers from across the globe. Find out more ...
New University
November 15, 2017
“These people have a right to stay because they are here. Most people in the United States, including political philosophers, believe the right to ...
teleSUR English
November 15, 2017
No political philosopher of our age has reached nearly so far in terms ... was one of the foremost political philosophers of the late twentieth and ...
University of Virginia
November 14, 2017
“Liberalism is failing not because it fell short,” writes political philosopher Patrick J. Deneen in “The Tragedy of Liberalism,” “but because it was ...
Premier
November 13, 2017
The international work of the UK Church will not be "remotely affected" by Brexit, a Christian political philosopher has told Premier.
Prospect
November 13, 2017
According to the moral philosopher TM Scanlon, “John Rawls was widely recognised as the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century.
PJ Media
November 12, 2017
It was the awareness of human fallibility that led political philosophers to externalize virtue by reposing it in God or in concepts like ...
Waco Tribune-Herald
November 12, 2017
And against the populist tear-them-down rage to disparage. The political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's conservative, says education ...
Press Herald
November 12, 2017
... but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure,” as the political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1838 in “Democracy ...
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
November 10, 2017
And against the populist tear-them-down rage to disparage. The political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's conservative, says education ...
The Daily Progress
November 5, 2017
The political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's conservative, says education should teach how to praise. How, that is, to recognize ...
Xinhua
November 3, 2017
Other names on the list include political philosopher Karl Marx, composer Ludwig van Beethoven and scientist Albert Einstein. The Nazis used ...
Omaha World-Herald
November 3, 2017
The political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's conservative, says education should teach how to praise. How, that is, to recognize ...
Kane County Chronicle
November 2, 2017
Modern political philosophers disagree on many topics, but the whole range of them, from Thomas Hobbes (autocratic/totalitarian) to John ...
Tucson Weekly
November 2, 2017
To explain, Arizona's David Schmidtz was already one of the world's most prominent political philosophers, with well-established libertarian ...
The Columbus Dispatch
October 21, 2017
One of the best descriptions of what our aspirations should be was offered by the political philosopher Michael Sandel. “When politics goes well ...
Myjoyonline.com
October 20, 2017
Taking inspiration from political philosopher Baron de Montesquieu's book Spirit of Laws, the NDC MP wants a human face in the ...
PJ Media
October 19, 2017
Vox Day, game designer, political philosopher, and founder of Castalia House, saw the need for real diversity in comics and answered the call ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
October 19, 2017
One of the best descriptions of what our aspirations should be was offered by the political philosopher Michael Sandel. “When politics goes well ...
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