@arnovision.bsky.socialPlato warned us about the dangers of power, ambition, and political illusion over 2,000 years ago.
The technology of war has changed.
Human nature has not.
Trump, Netanyahu, Iran—and an ancient question:
What happens when political ambition outruns wisdom?
youtu.be/VfKVh94w2Xg
#PoliticalPhilosophy
@sheriffof0.bsky.socialThe UN says broadcasting an execution is torture. The Pentagon plans one anyway, timed to the hour of the crime, the same week a film restages a killing already caught on camera.
www.jonknowles.com/2026/10/take...
#PoliticalPhilosophy #Spectacle #Debord #CapitalPunishment.
@regentsox.bsky.socialWhat makes a good society?
Join this Centre for Baptist Studies seminar later this month to explore this very question!
📅 Wednesday 28 October 2026
🕟 4:30 - 6:30pm
📍 Regent’s Park College, Oxford
#GoodSociety #PoliticalPhilosophy #Theology #Oxford #RegentsParkCollege #CentreForBaptistStudies
@keithwilson.eu
@theintellectualhis.bsky.socialWhat was Thomas Hobbes afraid of? 📜 Swipe through fear, insecurity and the search for political order. Is fear a legitimate foundation for political authority?
#ThomasHobbes #IntellectualHistory #PoliticalPhilosophy #HistoryOfIdeas #BeyondTheText
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.”
@gsuzzi.bsky.socialNew preprint: "Human Waste: Bare Life, Abjection, and the Ethics of Classification in Johanna Stoberock’s Pigs".
Exploring abjection, bare life, disposability, and the ethics of classification through Stoberock’s novel.
Link below
#Philosophy #Literature #PoliticalPhilosophy #Posthumanism #PhilSci
@mxmilkiib.bsky.social
@amnofficial.bsky.socialHILEI: A Framework for Analyzing Structural Corruption and the Erosion of the Rule of Law
This manuscript introduces and operationalizes the construct of the Highly Influential...
#StructuralCorruption
#ResearchPaper
#PoliticalPhilosophy
#InstitutionalCorruption
@pepperberry-posts.bsky.social
@nachdasein.bsky.socialI've made a publication in which #metapolitics, #politicalphilosophy, and #anarchism will be discussed. I've got an introduction posted about the topics. In the coming weeks, in-depth articles and notes will be added. Pardon me as I find my way around the Atmosphere. Links in thread.
@undpress.bsky.social"This is splendid material, rigorously argued and presented in a clear, lively manner. While traditional Thomists have shown little interest in the 'new natural law,' this engaging study might persuade them to take a closer look... Highly recommended." ~Choice Magazine #PoliticalPhilosophy
@anthempress.bsky.socialJust Published! Explores how modern redefinitions of key concepts such as nature, freedom and virtue have reshaped our understanding of justice and altered how states assess right and wrong. Order here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5x9n439p #PoliticalPhilosophy #Philosophy #Justice #AnthemPress #monmouthu
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.”
#BookSky #Books #PoliticalPhilosophy #AnarchistTheory #RestorativeJustice
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.”
#BookSky #Books #PoliticalPhilosophy #MoralCharacter #Ethics
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
#BookSky #Books #AmericanHistory #PoliticalPhilosophy #ConstitutionalLaw
@philosopher1923.bsky.social#politics #oppression #democracy #Dewey #DuBois #IndianPhilosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy
@neildsroberts.bsky.social
Have a look at Hari Ramesh's book, "Harnessing the State," and hope to see you on Monday!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
@comedywriter.bsky.social#GordonBrown very impressive on this, #FrancisFukuyama* not so much.
* FF has spent 3 decades explaining what The End of History is about, but more pertinently, what it wasn't about. 🙄