Freedom and Flourishing

  I have asked Chris Matthew Sciabarra to present his views on the question posed above because he has possibly thought more deeply than any...

  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 question is posed in the title of Chapter 10 of Steven Pinker’s book , Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters. ...

  The accompanying graph shows that personal freedom tends to be greatest in countries where people hold the most emancipative values (on av...

  In considering this question my focus is on Mikayla Novak’s recent book, Freedom in Contention, Social Movements and Liberal Political Eco...

  It feels good! I am one of those people who extols the virtues of eBooks. They don’t take up space on bookshelves. They don’t collect du...

  The quoted passage comes near the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem , Little Gidding, which was written in Britain during the Second World War. Eli...

Two philosophers, John and Robert, were travelling in a lawless country when they were attacked by two bandits. In the initial exchang...

A  statement  made last year by Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, marking the 70 th  anniversary of the Uni...

It seems to be becoming fashionable these days for people in the western world to downplay the importance of liberty. Some people even exp...