Thou shall not steal.” Since taxation is clearly a “taking” under threat of coercion, we can ask, where does it cross the ...
Friedrich Nietzsche's famous quote, "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness," ...
The ancient Greeks believed that those who govern society must possess not only power but also wisdom and moral virtue. The ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher, challenged traditional morality and religion, famously declaring 'God ...
As moral outrage fades, justice is recast as power. From Gaza to global politics, public ethics erode—can democratic morality ...
Malcolm Budd, who has died aged 84, was a leading thinker on aesthetics, and the philosophy of art; he was Grote Professor of ...
According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, religious affiliation remains overwhelmingly high. Political speeches invoke ...
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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 ...
From Venezuela to Gaza, the selective application of international law by powerful states and their critics alike is draining ...
In the shadowed caves of ancient India, Siddhartha Gautama sat under a bodhi tree, wrestling with the hydra-headed beast of ...