ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
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We are citizens of Western nations who have watched with alarm as the traditional beliefs, institutions, and liberties underpinning life in the countries we love have been progressively undermined and overthrown. Read more
Thank you for inviting me to the Telos Conference. Unlike most of you, I am not a philosopher. I was trained as a historian. Some of you though may consider that to be, by definition, a failed philosopher. Read more
We speak with journalist Lynzy Billing, whose investigation for ProPublica details how CIA-backed death squads, known as Zero Units, have yet to be held accountable for killing hundreds of civilians during the U.S. War in Afghanistan. The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by U.S. soldiers, became feared throughout rural Afghanistan for their brutal night …
Ethiopian Breaking News , The president of Afar region Mr. Awol Arba Big Quastion for PM Abiy Ahmed. Afar Pannel meeting | “Ethiopia will prevail” | Awol Arba | Daniel kibret | Andargachew TSige | Bereket Geberewa | Dr, Mihretab | Afar Pannen Meeting. [Awol Arba is correct and my goal in my lecture series …
The idea behind Life is Short can best be summed up as a kind of modern re-imagining of the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s book On the Shortness of Life. Seneca’s main point in his book was that life is not so much short as badly wasted. Since Seneca’s book was written around the start of the …
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You might think it obvious that any list of topics worthy of sustained philosophical investigation would include education, along with mind, knowledge, language, morality and so on. Education, one would think, is a subject-matter of immense practical, real-world import that invites philosophical reflection, and that reflection in turn promises to illuminate not just education itself …
Soon after Kenneth Roth announced in April that he planned to step down as the head of Human Rights Watch, he was contacted by Sushma Raman, the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Raman asked Roth if he would be interested in joining the center as a …
The biggest philosophical news item of 2022, by far, as indicated by Daily Nous statistics, was the discovery of five crates of long-forgotten transcriptions of Hegel lectures in the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. A bit lower on the list, though still in the top 50, was the placing online of a large selection …