Nietzsche’s Friend Jacob Burckhardt: How a Conservative 19th Century...
I’ve just started reading The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jakob Burckhardt. Burckhardt was a friend and colleague of Friedrich Nietzsche at the University of Basle. Unlike Nietzsche, Burkhardt was...
View ArticleJohn Stuart Mill and Nietzsche on Individualism
Primary version of this post at Barry Stocker’s Weblog, with picture of Mill, not just the link. John Stuart Mill picture in the image above. I always find it creates a bit of a shock if I suggest that...
View ArticleHow Locke uses Money to Solve the Land Problem
In chapter 5 of his Essay on Civil Government, ‘Of Property’ Locke famously refers to property as emerging from the land mingled with labour. Presumably he would have been rather startled to find that...
View ArticleLiberating Republicanism
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog What do I mean by liberating Republicanism? A few things. I mean liberating Machiavelli the Republican theorist from the...
View ArticleFoucault, Libertarianism and Europe
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog I’ve pasted in a conference abstract below. It’s an expanded version for the conference book of abstracts and serves as a...
View ArticleLiberal and Libertarian Foucault III: Physiocrats
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog. Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, Lecture Two (page 207) Actually, we can say that thanks to these...
View ArticleFoucault’s Two Perspectives on Liberalism: 75-76
Also available at Barry Stocker’s Weblog (web.me.com) with visual content Bosphorus Reflections (Blogger) This is a somewhat delayed thought coming out of the Beyond Boundaries conference on European...
View ArticleUK Classical Liberals Commemorate Foundation of Turkish Republic
TODAY IN HISTORY 29 October 1923: Republic of Turkey is founded following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. PROGRESSIVEvision is a campaigning think tank which investigates and advocates...
View ArticleSome Good Links: Persons, Ethics, Politics, Economy
1. Persons (and ethical agency) ‘The I in Me’.. Thomas Nagel reviews Galen Strawson’s book Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics. London Review of Books. 5th November 2009. Nage; a...
View ArticleKierkegaard on the Limits of the State II: Religion to Politics
The last post looked at Kierkegaard’s highly critical views of the state church in Denmark to establish his negative view of the idea of a Christian nation or a state led church. Carrying on from the...
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