One way to sum up postwar American politics is to say that conservatives try to stop liberals from breaking the liberals’ own rules. The “rules” in this formulation are those of liberalism in the ...
John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside David ...
Wolfgang Kasper salutes a progenitor of the great classical liberal tradition. On Thursday some of us commemorated the 300th anniversary of the death of John Locke, the man whose ideas on philosophy ...
TODAY THE practice as well as the theory of foreign policy is divided between the traditions of liberalism and realism (or realpolitik). Ever since the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 ...
Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalism A “once in a generation” discovery of a centuries-old ...
According to one popular account of the decline of Western Civilization, everything was humming along splendidly until the moderns came along and ruined it all. The Greeks, we are told, had ...
The case for the 17th century English philosopher John Locke is made by the MP Lisa Nandy who reckoned he "set out the foundation of western democracy". From his Essex burial site, she told reporter ...
When asked who his favourite philosopher was, George W Bush famously answered "Jesus Christ". At least he had one. Politicians tend to avoid philosophy like the plague. Oliver Letwin, for instance, ...
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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Andrew Burstein discusses John Locke's philosophy and his influence on the founders. Professor Andrew Burstein discusses John Locke's ...