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Thomas Hobbes believed that it is always better to have security rather than liberty in a country. He was therefore deeply opposed ...

How do you get a society that provides basic decent services to all citizens? Political theorist John Rawls had a good idea, and it ...

Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who ...

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of ...

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Purchase Steven's new book, "On Statesmanship." (https://shorturl.at/4vE9i) About the book: In the modern world we yearn for ...

We are taught to think of modern civilization as inherently 'better' than the pre-industrial age. That's why we need to tap into the ...

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Machiavelli's name is a byword for immorality and political scheming. But that's deeply unfair. This was simply a political theorist ...

In his talk, Jonathan Anomaly offers an overview of how leading thinkers have used theories of human nature to justify claims ...

The 18th century Jean-Jacques Rousseau made the bold claim that modernity and civilisation are not improvements; they've ...

The leading theorist of modern right-wing political movements was an Austrian economist called Friedrich Hayek. FURTHER ...

Professor Ian Shapiro introduces the class “Power and Politics in Today's World.” This course provides an examination of political ...

In this lecture series, Dr. Peter Kreeft examines key ideas in philosophy by comparing and contrasting two representative ...

In his book Politics, Aristotle outlined the role of the political community in cultivating the virtuous life of its citizens. This video ...