John Locke on Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
By Adalei Broers - In spite of legislation protecting each individual, conflict will inevitably erupt, if not between a government and its people then among the people themselves. This of course will...
View ArticleHobbes'"Leviathan" and Views on the Origins of Civil Government: Conservatism...
By Katherine J. Wolfenden - Of course, even if a sovereign was chosen by the people, his successors would not come to power under the same circumstances, and the subjects’ descendants would not have...
View ArticleWeber and Nagel on Values in the Social and Natural Sciences
By Alexander P. Young - Due to their different subject matter, the way in which social and natural science inquiries are conducted differs. For some, this difference is constituted in a greater...
View ArticleAvoiding the Tyranny of Democracy: The Republican Ideal of a 'Mixed'...
By Jessica C. Tselepy - The assertion that unconstrained power brings with it inevitable corruption has occupied theorists since the first considerations of authority. That the nature of man in...
View ArticleThe Occupation of Common Sense: From Neoliberalism to Radical Democracy
By Tristan Smaldone - Conceiving neoliberalism as a form of constructivism, an ideological project rather than a doctrine prefigured by ‘human nature’, illuminates a promising path towards countering...
View ArticleComparing the Political Theories of Lao Tzu and Machiavelli: Arguments in...
By Rocco A. Astore - Within Lao Tzu’s Tao-Teh-Ching and Machiavelli’s The Prince, there are similar notions concerning how a ruler should maintain order and how he/she can be an effective leader....
View ArticleDefining the Legitimacy and Power of the State Through Weber and Foucault
By Rocco A. Astore - As a founder of sociology, Max Weber influenced the social sciences immensely. In his “Politics as a Vocation,” Weber claims that one of the definitions of the state is its ability...
View ArticleGenealogy of a Crisis: Europe, Greece, and the Management of the Refugee...
By Helen Makkas - As Europe’s frontier with the Muslim East, Greece has been cast as backward, and not worthy of full sovereignty since the earliest years of its independence from the Ottoman empire....
View ArticleErasmus and the Transformation of Early Modern Political Authority in "The...
By Zachary S. Brown - Often called the “prince of the humanists” Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was one of the most influential European philosophers and theologians of the early modern period....
View ArticleDepoliticizing and Deconstructing Human Rights: Changing the Lens Through...
By Uday V. Garg - This paper is an attempt to navigate through existing theories of universalisation of human rights and existing justifications thereof. It is premised on several cultural and...
View ArticleJohn Dewey & The Ethics of Democracy
By Gabrielle Micheletti - John Dewey was an ingenious and significant figure whose criticisms spanned a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, education, politics, aesthetics, and ethics. The...
View ArticleTheories of Nationalism: A Brief Comparison of Realist and Constructivist...
By Matt Finkel - In the immense field of scholarly work regarding defining nationhood, a raging debate exists between the conservative view of the nation and the constructivist view. A clear and...
View ArticleHow Democratic Was The Roman Republic? The Theory and Practice of an...
By Zachary S. Brown - In Federalist No. 34 Alexander Hamilton, arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution, claimed that the Roman Republic had “attained to the utmost height of...
View ArticleIs Western Political Science Applicable to the Islamic World? On the...
By Samuel W. Singler - Given pervasive representations of its geostrategic and global economic significance, the Middle East constitutes an important area of political and academic study far beyond its...
View ArticleKarl Marx and the Fair Trade Chocolate Industry in the Ivory Coast
By Caitlin McGonnigal - The research completed aimed to show that the idea of fair trade, using the example of goals for the chocolate industry of the Ivory Coast, can be described as an example of the...
View ArticleFascism: A Political Ideology of the Past
By Katharine A. Mackel - Fascism cannot adapt to, and exist under, certain prominent, contemporary conditions. Specifically, it cannot adapt to the strong democracies in which extreme right parties...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Illegitimacy of Facism and the Innate Desire for Freedom
By Rocco A. Astore - This piece examines the ideologies and tactics used by fascist governments to validate and enforce their authority through Michael Mann’s work Fascists. By explicating Kant’s view...
View ArticleJohn Rawls' Primary Goods Approach to Justice: An Analysis of Indexing Problems
By Rhidoy Rashid - There has been extensive debate over the past few decades regarding the criteria by which we should measure distributive justice. In conceiving a just state of affairs it is...
View ArticleThe Value and Benefit of an Enlightened People for the Continuity of...
By Rocco A. Astore - Political philosophers and theorists alike continue to debate if more enlightened populations would be of value or not. This piece will contribute to that dispute by claiming that...
View ArticlePopulist Mobocracy, Fear, and Lies: The Politics of American Populism
By Anthony R. Brunello - American politics today operates in an arena where truth and objective reality are bent to the designs of particular interests, powerful people and commercial profiteers. All...
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