Philosophy

What has Job meant?

What is the relationship between public freedom and private joy?

Jackie Murray focuses on the significance of Phaedo’s role as she explores the function of the slavery analogy in Plato’s famed dialogue.

Filmmaker Judith Wechsler presents her documentary on Isaiah Berlin.

A recurrent liberal dream envisions inevitable progress towards worldwide democracy. Philosopher Charles Taylor sees this dream’s realization as very unlikely. Democracies, he argues, carry within them the seeds of their own degeneration.