Politics & Philosophy
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What Do We Owe the State? Hobbes on Fear, Liberty and Faction
One continuing Politics & Philosophy discussion for the three-part Hobbes series: fear, political obligation, liberty and…
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Is Plato’s Just City a Model—or a Warning?
Plato’s Republic can be read as an ideal of justice, a philosophical analogy or a warning…
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How Does a Social Order Reproduce Itself?
Read Althusser and listen to the Marx episode before discussing how economic relations, institutions and ideology…
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Can Political Freedom Be Built from First Principles?
Rousseau and Burke offer competing foundations for political freedom: collective self-government on one side, inherited institutions…
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Can Music Become Political Power? The Baltic Way and Non-Violent Resistance
Start here: one short reading, one question This discussion explores how shared music and public action…