It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of j...

‘Art arises,’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not...

New linguistic articulations can reconfigure the way we make sense of our own feelings, thoughts and responses – our...

In the wake of the nonideal theory turn in political philosophy, few have paused to ask: Is nonideal theory a form of ideology? And perhaps even fewer have paused to ask: Is the debate between ideal/n...

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS IDEAL THEORY - Volume 33 Issue 1-2

Enlightenment liberalism neglected the socially embedded nature of the self, Taylor contends, but the Romantics can tell us how to restore a shared sense of meaning and purpose.