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Michael Billig on the invention of ‘Language’

April 17, 2014

‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …

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Michel Foucault on Power without the King

April 7, 2014

Long but incredible excerpt of an ‘analytics’ of power, from Michel Foucault History of Sexuality – Vol 1. ‘This history of sexuality, …

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Michael Sandel on Character, Self-knowledge, and Friendship

April 4, 2014

‘If the deontological ethic fails to redeem its own liberating promise, it also fails plausibly to account for certain indispensable …

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MacIntyre on Progress in Rationality

March 15, 2014

‘Aristotle’s achievement then is wrongly understood if it is supposed that he offered us an account of justice and of …

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MacIntyre on Practical Reason and the Structures of Normality

March 12, 2014

‘All practical reasoning arises from someone’s asking the question “What am I to do?” The asking of that question itself …

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Aquinas on the purpose of Human Law

March 11, 2014

‘The purpose of human law is to lead men into virtue, not suddenly, but gradually. Wherefore it does not lay …

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William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence

February 16, 2014

‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …

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Faheem A. Hussain

Faheem A. Hussain

Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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