Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
Category Archives: Political Philosophy
Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
Melissa Lane: Socrates as god’s gift
In Plato’s version, by contrast, Socrates defends himself with attitude, along lines that are deliberately and dramatically different from the …
Melissa Lane: Greeks on Justice and Civilisation
“The fundamental political idea of justice can already be found in archaic [Greek] poetry… Setting the terms of right or …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup? – Shorter Open Democracy version
This first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. A substantially extended version was published here. Clarification …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup – Clarification 1
Unedited – originally published here at twit longer. Original post here. — Some points that needed to be clarified asked …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup?
An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. In …
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda on the revival of Hebrew as a national obligation
“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …
Isiah Berlin on the Struggle for Recognition in Nationalism
“It is this desire for reciprocal recognition that leads the most authoritarian democracies to be, at times, consciously preferred by …
Michael Walzer on the Philosopher and Democracy
‘But the truths discovered or worked out by political philosophers can be implemented. They lend themselves readily to legal embodiment. …
