Tag: political philosophy

We’ve all observed how our political philosophies evolve as we age. There are people, even the brightest amongst us, who try to oversimplify this concept, e.g., Winston Churchill’s “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart.  …

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Here’s a message the likes of which I’m sure many of you have received recently:

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It’s the 527th birthday of Thomas Hobbes, an Englishman widely considered the father of modern political philosophy. Hobbes certainly was no idealist; in fact, he’s best known for his belief that the core of human life is so centered around …

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In response to my piece on Sustainability and Political Philosophy, a reader asked me if I’d comment on greed and where it comes from. I would say that our society over the last 75 years or so has become increasingly tuned …

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Occasionally I like to write a short piece that offers my viewpoints on political philosophy as it applies to sustainability, examining the nature of our moral obligations to our fellow human beings. To what degree do our ethical sensibilities call …

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