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The African Enlightenment The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave Dag Herbjørnsrud Aeon, Jan., 2018 Dag Herbjørnsrud is a historian of ideas and founder of SGOKI (the Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas) in Oslo. His latest book is Global Knowledge: Renaissance for a New Enlightenme..

The autism paradox How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced Bonnie Evans Aeon, Kan., 2018 Bonnie Evans is a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Metamorphosis of Autism (2017). Published in association with The Q..

John Dewey’s Experiments in Democratic Socialism Alexander Livingston Jacobin, 01.08.2018 John Dewey is commonly seen as the liberal philosopher par excellence. But his staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism. John Dewey as a young professor of philosophy and psychology at Michigan, 1891. “If radicalism be defined as perception of need..

21st-century Marx Each era of modernity has reinvented Marx to fit its needs. How can his analysis of capitalism help us today? Terrell Carver Aeon, Jan., 2018 Terrell Carver is professor of political theory at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on Marx, Engels and Marxism over many years. His most recent book is Marx (2017), in the Polity Classic Thinkers seri..

Philosophy Needs a New DefinitionBy Costica Bradtan LARB DECEMBER 17, 2017 WHEN THE NEW SUFI MASTER came to Baghdad from his native Nishapur, in Khorasan, his fame had long preceded him. He had, the story goes, quite a reputation for his high spirituality and unique approach to ihsan (“perfection”), but also a reputation for his unorthodox ways. Some had heard fantastic ru..

Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?We can measure black holes, but we still can't cure the common cold. Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole NASA / Reuters Martin Rees The Atlantic, Dec 6, 2017 Albert Einstein said that the “most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” He was right to be astonished. Human brains evolved..

What is the Basis for Human Equality?‘One Another’s Equals’ by Jeremy Waldron By Samuel MoynCommonweal, November 28, 2017 Getty Images After Charlottesville, it is clear once again that one of the most fundamental American tenets—that all human beings are created equal—is nowhere near universally accepted. When white men on the march are nostalgic for a time ..

Is civilization overrated?On a bit of Rousseauvian nonsense taken up by the modern academy.James HankinsNew Criterion, December, 2017 In 1750, Jean-Jacques Rousseau won the prize at the Academy of Dijon for his essay answering the set question, “Has the restoration of the arts and sciences had a purifying effect upon morals?” Rousseau’s answer, in what came to be known t..

© AF archive/Alamy What it means to be French 0 --> 0"> SUDHIR HAZAREESINGHTLS, November 22, 2017 0 --> -1 --> One of the most influential evocations of modern French nationhood was offered by the historian and philologist Ernest Renan in a lecture in 1882. In contrast with Germanic conceptions, which were grounded in ethnic features such as race and religion, Qu’est-ce..

MAD-Made WorldJean-Pierre Dupuy INFERENCE International Review of Science Published November 23, 2017 Political Science / Critical Essay Jean-Pierre Dupuy is Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Philosophy at the École Polytechnique in Paris and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. What, Errol Morris once asked Robert McNamara, protected humanity fr..