Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought
In this post, Kimberly Hutching and Patricia Owens reference their APSR article “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution“.…
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Socrates and the Beautiful Girl
What is the Beautiful? In Plato’s Hippias Major, Socrates and the sophist Hippias set out to answer this question. Along the way, they evaluate such answers as ‘the appropriate’, ‘the beneficial’, ‘gold’, and even ‘burying your parents’.…
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The European Super League should make all sports pause for thought
The proposed European Super League for football might have stalled at its inception but it is unlikely to be the last we hear of the idea, in this or any other sport.…
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Was Kant a mystic?
The great eighteenth-century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), is known for his wide-ranging insights spanning the whole range of philosophical sub-disciplines, from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and jurisprudence—and everything in between. Indeed, Kant’s influence on aesthetics, history, theology, and the sciences is undeniable.
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Dread, the Demonic, and our Current Situation
Leaving aside the raging pandemic, and recognizing that Covid is not unconnected, there are two crises which define our time. First, the global weakening or collapse of democracy and rise of fascism: e.g., Trumpism in the U.S., repressive Indian Hindu nationalism, conservative Catholicism in Eastern Europe, Chinese “authoritarianism” (market Stalinism?), and whatever is going on in Brazil.
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Philo of Alexandria: My Ancient World dinner guest
I would love to have a dinner with Philo of Alexandria even though we would be more likely to disagree on most issues.…
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Favorinus: My Ancient Roman dinner guest
I probably should be naming some mighty and mysterious genius, one of the great philosophers I study or a mostly-lost tragic poet, but it would feel wrong somehow.…
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