...Christian attitude. In that sense she doesn’t, perhaps, represent other 83 year-olds, nor indeed humanity more generally. For going back to the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the fundamental law of human nature...
...Giorgio Agamben: the first philosopher to come out against the protocols of the elders of COVID-19 in early 2020. Agamben is notorious for having issued several bulletins against the lockdowns...
...to today’s woke ideologies. First, though, let’s go to the great Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. This Scots-Canadian writer thinks Hume is the greatest philosopher ever to have lived. But...
...a philosopher who seems unfortunately and erroneously to be regarded as entirely the property of the Left: Michel Foucault. In the first volume of his The History of Sexuality, Foucault sets...
...emergence of totalitarian tendencies in the West. The interview was conducted by political philosopher and author Patrick Dewals and first published in Flemish here. It has been translated by a...
...known to us. But across the Channel, the situation was no different. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, German politician Wolfgang Wodarg and Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell number among the continent’s most...
...period of reflection on recent events and that the school will need to “consider how we continue to maintain a positive dialogue between those who hold opposing views”. He urged...
...be putting informed consent in jeopardy, and in some cases babies (“pregnancy tissue”) would be lost when an informed woman, on reflection, may have preferred to keep it. Informed consent...
...too does society “culture” its disasters before deciding how to respond to them. In this context, delving into the historical archive becomes a useful exercise. Indeed, the philosopher Michel Foucault1Foucault,...
...it’s now almost deserted. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos’s fortune has increased to $171.6 billion, cementing his status as the richest man in the world. France’s Philosopher-King is a Lockdown Sceptic Bernard-Henri...
