Tag: "political philosophy"

Presidential Decision-Making: Utilitarianism vs Duty Ethics

Michael Rockler compares two ethics of statemanship for two American presidents.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007: Articles]

A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton

Floris van den Berg criticises Roger Scruton’s splendid isolation.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Books]

Leo Strauss: Neoconservative?

Tibor R. Machan gets to grips with a perplexing thinker.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Articles]

I am Not a Man I am Dynamite: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition

Brian Morris deplores John Moore and friends’ views on Nietzsche and anarchism.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Books]

9/11 and World Trade Center

Thomas Wartenberg sees two films about 9-11 and muses that sometimes more than courage is called for.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Films]

World Poverty and the Duty of Assistance

Our intrepid philosophical investigator Grant Bartley files a conference report.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Articles]

Fundamentals, Islamists and the West

Imadaldin Al-Jubouri considers how some Muslim fundamentalists justify their aggressiveness – by misreading the Qur’an, among other things.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Heresy]

Leo Strauss: Tributes And Reflections

William Bluhm and Alfred Geier offer non-neo-con views on their old teacher.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Articles]

Ethics in Government

Richard Baron tries to be good in government.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Articles]

Tolstoy’s Theory of Nonviolence

Academician Abdusalam A. Guseinov on pacificism and the perspective of the infinite beginning.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Philosophy in Russia]

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