Michael Billig on the invention of ‘Language’
‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …
Category Archives: Political Philosophy
Michel Foucault on Power without the King
Long but incredible excerpt of an ‘analytics’ of power, from Michel Foucault History of Sexuality – Vol 1. ‘This history of sexuality, …
Michael Sandel on Character, Self-knowledge, and Friendship
‘If the deontological ethic fails to redeem its own liberating promise, it also fails plausibly to account for certain indispensable …
MacIntyre on Progress in Rationality
‘Aristotle’s achievement then is wrongly understood if it is supposed that he offered us an account of justice and of …
MacIntyre on Practical Reason and the Structures of Normality
‘All practical reasoning arises from someone’s asking the question “What am I to do?” The asking of that question itself …
Aquinas on the purpose of Human Law
‘The purpose of human law is to lead men into virtue, not suddenly, but gradually. Wherefore it does not lay …
William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
