ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Machiavelli was a 16th-century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas. His two most famous philosophical books, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, were published after his death. His philosophical legacy remains enigmatic, but that result should not be surprising for a thinker who understood the necessity to work sometimes from the shadows. There is still …
Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political philosophy. Michael Oakeshott famously described it as ‘the greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language.[1] Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, ethics, law, psychology general philosophy and what …
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics. It thus tells us in some …
Plato established the first academy in around 387 BCE. The Academy taught mathematics, dialectics, natural science and preparation or training for statesmanship. The Academy continued operating under different scholarchs (College presidents) and phases, most notably, skepticism introduced by Arscecilaus (315 0 241 BCE). This skepticism is in essence akin to the contemporary argument by postmodernists. …
THE TERM “POSTMODERNIST” has been used to describe everything from contemporary paintings and music videos to amusement parks and information technologies. Things remain confusing even if we restrict our attention to postmodernist theory. A great variety of perspectives have been lumped under this heading. Read more
Political analysts often dismiss postmodernism, claiming that it is self-contradictory or simply irrelevant to the social sciences. While claims about the self-contradictory nature of postmodernism have some grounding, the latter assertion is more difficult to justify. In this article, I consider the main contributions of postmodernism to the discipline of political science and why these …
I am glad to come across this video because the young guys have major elements of my own thesis. They only need to be informed about politics and natural laws governing society’s self-organizing process (diffusion, adaptation, and integration/cohesion). They are on spot regarding local self-determination and the need for change in America’s foreign policy orientation. …
This is a book as stated in the title on postmodernism. Postmodernism rejects medieval philosophy based principally on tradition, faith and mysticism (about 300 BCE to 1450 ADE) and modern philosophy represented primarily by enlightenment. Because enlightenment was a resurrection of the Socrates method or classical philosophy based on reason as advanced by the SPA …
This video shows succinctly how the so-called western philosophy spreads confusion and subjects both individual and societal lives to ignorance. According to this “philosopher” requiring children to go to school is taking the children’s rights away or putting constraints on the children’s liberty. This thinking is shared by both conservatives and liberals and hence the …
We are political conservatives who have spent most of our adult lives working to support the constitution and the conservative principles upon which it is based: limited government, liberty, equality of opportunity, freedom of religion, strong national defense, and rule of law. Read more