Freedom and Flourishing

  Everyone knows that resilience is important in coping with misfortune. However, it may be more important than I had thought. My attentio...

  I asked myself whether it is possible for humans to flourish if they don't live good lives after reading an article by Markus Knee and...

  Norms of Liberty is a work of political philosophy written by Douglas B Rasmussen and Douglas J Den Uyl, and published in 2005. The blu...

  This illustration of the fictional island of Utopia was apparently in the first edition of Thomas More’s book, Utopia , published in 1516...

  I have previously written on this blog about the relationship between nature connectedness and happiness. In one essay , written in 2015, ...

  David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...

  I have read a great deal of the fiction written by Jean Paul Sartre, but my knowledge of his philosophical works is second-hand. I read Na...

  In countries with endemic law and order and corruption problems, outbreaks of rioting and looting often lead to military dictatorship, or ...

  Nigel Biggar acknowledges that British colonialism contained evils and injustices, but he judges it to have been much better than its mode...