It is now a decade since the passing of Isaiah Berlin. In these ten years his industrious editor, Henry Hardy, has collected and published Berlin’s essays and a volume of letters and prepared for publication three of Berlin’s lecture series. These lecture series have been published as The Roots of Romanticism, Freedom and Its Betrayal, and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age. Although published...

s for papers to be presented at a conference to be held at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester 27-29 October 2005

If philosophical moral reflection improves moral behavior, one might expect ethics professors to behave morally better than socially similar non-ethicists. Under the assumption that forms of political engagement such as voting have moral worth, we looked at the rate at which a sample of professional ethicists—and political philosophers as a subgroup of ethicists—voted in eight years’ worth of e...

This article aims to show the anthropological and political relevance of logos or rationality as understood by Eric Voegelin. The paper is divided into two parts, first elaborates what Voegelin considers be discovery Plato Aristotle, which represents a historical at same time epistemological phenomenon self-illumination human psyche. Through concept logos, soul discovered and, with it reality c...

Suhrawardi is a renowned philosopher famous for his thoughts on the philosophy of Illumination. His are contained in mangnum opus, The Wisdom Al-Isryq (Hikmat Al-Isryq). This study aims to reveal prominent aspect various political dimensions work, whose primordial focus was aspects system and concept power. power were then characterized as For this reason, not only uses qualitative method with ...