Immanuel Kant – one of the most influential, consequential, and ground-breaking philosophers in history – changed the way we think…
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An introduction to Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Hobbes looms over all of us as the preeminent defender of the modern state…
Next I’m looking at morality and altruism after the Holocaust. Zymunt Bauman argues that the Holocaust proves that societal rules,…
It’s 1932. You’re a young poverty-stricken working-class German with a starving family. You haven’t had a job for months, your…
Winston Churchill once said that ‘Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers…
1914: Men and women are going about their lives – operating businesses, buying goods to import, planning production to export,…