The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

This article argues that Rousseau's Social Contract both upholds and transcends liberal concepts of political right. Rather than maintaining a distinction between public right and public good, ...

Moral Clarity is a book-length essay by Susan Neiman, the author of Evil in Modern Thought. It's provocative, absorbing and challenging. It deals with morality (specifically with ideas of good and ...

WORDSWORTH’S early life presents a remarkable parallel to the position of magnanimous youth to-day. His world, like ours, was a scene of conflict between discredited institutions and a new spirit, ...

In Emile, his classic work on education, Jean Jacques Rousseau advances a decidedly non-Christian argument against educational practices that might repress or alter what he contends is children’s ...

On 31st May Naomi Goulder will speak at "The Good, The Bad and the Controversial" at "HowTheLightGetsIn"—the philosophy and music session at Hay Festival. The discussion will be hosted by Sameer Rahim ...