Thou shall not steal.” Since taxation is clearly a “taking” under threat of coercion, we can ask, where does it cross the ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher, challenged traditional morality and religion, famously declaring 'God ...
Malcolm Budd, who has died aged 84, was a leading thinker on aesthetics, and the philosophy of art; he was Grote Professor of ...
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The philosophy and politics of Habermas

Among the many things that remain of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, are two things: firstly, that the crisis of capitalism – a word the social-democratic master ...
It has no entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia; it is not mentioned in the Catechism; yet the popes talk about it in their ...
The world of streaming presents us with the illusion of choice, but actually returns us to what we already know ...
A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements or systems of statements, and tests them step by step. Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) In the ...
As the world watches conflict spread across the Middle East, great power rivalries sharpen, and the global economy shudders, ...
The History of Modern Political Philosophy,” by Harvey C. Mansfield.