Heart-Mind Cosmos: Panentheism in Mahayana Buddhism And Early 19th Century...
In the 17th century, Issac Newton wrote laws of nature in the language of mathematics. These laws were so convincing that Newtonian science became the ruling paradigm in European thought. But in a...
View ArticleLiberal Values in Market Society
By: Jeremy Kingston Cynamon Much of political philosophy concerns itself with devising a priori systems (derived purely from theory) for organizing society. However, in doing so it tends to overlook...
View ArticleAntithesis in Federalist Number One
By: Nicholas Napolio This is how Alexander Hamilton poses the great question of what kind of government is best to the people of the newly formed United States. Federalist Number One, the first of...
View ArticleGeorgetown and Slavery: Catholic Redemption in Contemporary Political Time
By: Justin R. Harbour, ALM Georgetown University is currently engaged in an attempt to research, understand, and repair its role in the perpetuation of slavery in 19th century America. Georgetown...
View ArticleLocke and the Right to (Acquire) Property: On the Philosophical Basis of...
Do the rich pay their fair share in taxes? What is a “fair share”? Do governments have the right to tax some in order to provide services for others, or is this just theft? To answer these current...
View ArticleSilence as Speech: Reading Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño in the Light of her...
By: Rich Frontjes Speakers and Listeners in Public Discourse American public discourse is theoretically founded on the freedom of speech. This freedom to speak, however, in no way guarantees entry...
View ArticleJudge Posner on Meta-Ethics and Rational vs. Nonrational Argumentation
Moral theory is like a system of mathematics that has never gotten beyond addition.” — R. POSNER
View ArticleWhat Fascism Is Not, What It Is, and Why It Matters
Howl of the Day: May 31, 2016 Fascism, as a term, has become almost synonymous with injustice. And this common view of fascism is a good place to begin understanding the phenomenon. Once the term is...
View ArticleProgress and its Implications
How do we determine whether our society is getting better or worse? Have we experienced progress or regress in the last 100 years? 1000 years? Ever? Any claim that something has progressed requires a...
View ArticlePhilosopher-Kings in the Kingdom of Ends: Why Democracy Needs a...
How do you turn a democracy into a tyranny? The answer, as those familiar with Plato’s Republic will know, is: Do nothing. It will become a tyranny all by itself.
View ArticleThe US Left: A Short Introduction
Is there a US Left? More specifically, is there a popular movement for socialism in the United States that has any chance of affecting national policy any time soon? Despite rising interest in...
View ArticleChuck Klosterman and Relative Morality
When I was fifteen I had ridiculous opinions. Of course, at the time I didn’t think they were ridiculous, I thought they were well deliberated, intelligent, and insightful. When I was fifteen, I was of...
View ArticleWhat is “Fascist”? Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." -Umberto Eco
View ArticleRethinking the Goals of Finance: Lessons from the Amherst Arbitrage
By: John Brodie Gay & Jeremy Kingston Cynamon I. BACKGROUND Financial devices, like all technologies, develop – sometimes intentionally, sometimes by historical accident – to benefit particular...
View ArticleWomen Rule – How They Took Down a King
By: Elizabeth Larkin Bouché As inauguration day approaches and women ready themselves for the Women’s March on Washington, I am reminded of Europe’s most remarkable uprising of women against...
View ArticleThe Pledge of Allegiance: A Reading
What does it mean to say the Pledge of Allegiance? In this time of national tension, when the President of the United States has pronounced his inauguration day a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion,”...
View ArticleA People’s Buddhism?
America can learn much from B.R. Ambedkar’s liberation theology. But it first must get beyond bourgeois dismissals of the Dalit leader’s revolutionary dharma.
View ArticleNew Jacobins
By: Jared Marcel Pollen TO MY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I put the following work under your protection. It contains my opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to...
View ArticleMemory and History
Remembrance can never be settled once and for all. The needs of a society change over time, and remembrance evolves to accommodate these needs.
View ArticleIsolationism – Playing the Devil’s Advocate
Can diverse philosophical ideas develop in a single global society? Or must we have separate, "culturally isolated," societies that cross-fertilise each other?
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