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Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’

December 27, 2016

Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …

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Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness

October 15, 2014

‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …

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Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity

September 2, 2014

Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …

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Melissa Lane: Socrates as god’s gift

August 24, 2014

In Plato’s version, by contrast, Socrates defends himself with attitude, along lines that are deliberately and dramatically different from the …

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Melissa Lane: Greeks on Justice and Civilisation

August 20, 2014

“The fundamental political idea of justice can already be found in archaic [Greek] poetry… Setting the terms of right or …

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MacIntyre on being the heirs of Kuhn and not Kant

July 3, 2014

‘What was at issue here is perhaps easier for us to recognise now than it was for Gifford and his …

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Kierkegaard on Philosophy and Understanding Life

April 23, 2014

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause — …

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Kierkegaard on Truth and Purpose

April 18, 2014

‘What I really need is to get clear about what I am to do*, not what I must know, except …

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith

April 15, 2014

‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …

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Michel Foucault on Power without the King

April 7, 2014

Long but incredible excerpt of an ‘analytics’ of power, from Michel Foucault History of Sexuality – Vol 1. ‘This history of sexuality, …

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Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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