Philosopher's Zone 2008-05-02
2008-05-03 - Doing without a ruler: in defence of anarchism
The word derives from the Greek—it means 'without a ruler'—and the idea is that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished. This week we are looking at anarchism and why it has mostly played a minor role in political life and philosophy. The autonomous collective that is The Philosopher
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- 2008-09-06 - Sayyid Qutb and Islamist ideology
- 2008-09-06 - Sayyid Qutb and Islamist ideology
- 2008-08-30 - Light from the North - The Scottish Enlightenment
- 2008-08-23 - Worrying about China
- 2008-08-16 - Uprootedness and national conflicts
- 2008-08-09 - Objective truth
- 2008-08-02 - Stoics at war
- 2008-07-26 - Literature, law and ethics - The case of Billy Budd
- 2008-07-19 - Damned if you do and damned if you don't
- 2008-07-12 - Taking God for granted (or not)
- 2008-07-05 - John Gray at the Writers' Festival - Part 2
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- 2008-06-21 - Egalitarianism and fairness
- 2008-06-14 - The only good philosopher is a dead one
- 2008-06-07 - Ethics in the public realm - Bill Henson and drug-resistant tuberculosis
- 2008-05-31 - Mai '68
- 2008-05-24 - To be or not to be (part 2)
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- 2008-05-10 - Practical philosophy and speculative fiction
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- 2008-04-26 - Morality and political violence
- 2008-04-19 - Time for philosophers
- 2008-04-12 - Steam-age philosophy
- 2008-04-05 - Beautiful one day, metaphysical the next
- 2008-03-29 - Buffy the Concept Slayer
- 2008-03-22 - Islam and philosophy - Tariq Ramadan
- 2008-03-15 - Philosophy and the Natural World - Val Plumwood
- 2008-03-08 - Gavagai!
- 2008-03-01 - Philosophy in another tongue
- 2008-02-23 - Why there's no getting away from beauty...
- 2008-02-16 - Philosophers advising government
- 2008-02-09 - The Emergence of Science, Part 2
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