Tag: "political philosophy"

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]

King Kong

What are the dangers when a director monkeys around with a classic film? Thomas Wartenberg on the remake of King Kong.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Films]

By Any Means Necessary?

Ian Birchall on a moral problem for Sartre.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Jean-Paul Sartre at 100]

The Machiavelli Inquiry

Casimir Kukielka asks: What might some of history’s most famous practitioners of power politics have thought about the war in Iraq?
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Articles]

The Bush Disjunction

Paul Keeling on speech acts louder than words.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Articles]

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