Kant claims that a greater use of reason is part of becoming enlightened, whereas Rousseau advocates a reduction in the use of reason to tha...

In his  Discourse on Inequality ,  Rousseau argues that humanity was in a much better condition in the state of nature, before all the artif...

In his  Discourse on Inequalities,  Rousseau distinguishes two types of inequality among people: natural and moral.  Natural inequalities, w...

Democracy is hardly simple, given that the momentary will of the people can be distinguished in at least some cases from what is in the peop...

In addition to providing an excellent glimpse of a man much studied yet nevertheless lost to history,  Lincoln , directed by Steven Spielber...

To Aquinas, greed is the worst of the major sins. Augustine had privileged pride with the dubious distinction of being the worst of the wor...

Film has the potential to be so engrossing perceptually for the viewer-auditors that the medium can engage the human condition at a deep, u...

The visuals alone in the closing news conference of the EU-US “summit” held in Brussels, which President Barroso denoted as “the capital of ...

The European Court of Justice, the E.U. Supreme Court, ruled on May 13, 2014 that Google must defer to the right of users to have links abou...

In the world of journalistic and popular writers who double as motivational speakers, leadership is the proverbial rainbow into which pract...

Imagine running a race, and winning it only to watch the metal being given to your sponsor. “To Coke, our victor.” In enabling a runner, h...

On February 28, 2014, Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Yurly Sergeyev informed the Security Council that Russia had invaded the Crimean Peninsula, a...

In his testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee in 2014, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens addressed the need for an amend...

As the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were looking at two cases involving cellphone privacy from the standpoint of police access, NBC C...

Some movies are remembered for their narrative; other films attract an audience out of sheer star-power. Generally speaking, both story and ...