‘Barbarian’ and ‘barbaric’ are nowadays commonly used to describe somebody or something behaving in a particularly uncivilized or – to the observer – foreign way, and in this regards differs surprisingly little from it’s ancient counterpart. This article seeks to examine the meaning and history of the term in short.… Read More The Greco-Roman Concept of the Barbarian
An in-depth analysis of Karl Popper’s Piecemeal Engineering, introduced in “The Poverty of Historicism”, in comparison with it’s supposed antagonist, which he variably calls Holism, Utopianism or Activism. … Read More Piecemeal Engineering vs. holistic Utopianism
Justice in Aristotle’s philosophy differentiates between general and particular justice, the latter of which can be divided further into distributive and equalising justice.… Read More Justice in Aristotelian Ethics
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