Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato - Gregory Fried
Gregory Fried provides a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life he calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons.
25 May 2023
Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability
Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Robin Douglass offers an account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher.
26 Nov 2022
Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes
When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and education, and also as the man who put the Mediterranean town Cannes on the map. Rosemary Ashton discusses the origin of Cannes as a resort to a chance visit in 1834 by Lord Brougham.
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