Showing posts with label political philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political philosophy. Show all posts
Friday, 17 April 2015
If Cameron wants a property owning democracy, he has to support the mansion tax
Saturday, 17 May 2014
Political Evil and the Challenge of Forgiveness
A series of events on the theme 'Political Evil and the Challenge of Forgiveness' are taking place in York on the 2nd, 3rd and 10th June.
At the beginning of the 21st Century, there is no scarcity of political events that one can easily associate with the label “evil”. Genocide, totalitarianism, and torture are just some of the many faces of evil that continue to confront us today. Understanding the complex nature of atrocities is an essential precondition for learning from past mistakes and preventing future catastrophes.
In organising this series of events, we were guided by Hannah Arendt’s great insight that storytelling can best disclose the complexity of evil and of complicity in it. The two films and the academic workshop problematize the various faces of political evil and highlight the challenges it poses to forgiveness. Our hope is that they will engage the audience in a nuanced reflection about the individual’s responsibility and capacity to resist and overcome political evil in its multiple impersonations.
Full details can be found here.
Monday, 6 January 2014
Bob Goodin on Rough Justice - 29th January
Professor
Bob Goodin from the University of Essex will be giving the first departmental
seminar of the new term. His topic will be 'Rough Justice'. Professor Goodin is
the founding editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and is
world-renowned for his work in political theory and public policy.
Thursday, 16 May 2013
The significance of inequality
Dr Martin O'Neill has recently been awarded a grant from the Institute of New Economic Thinking for a project entitled The Significance of Inequality.
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