Abstract: In recent years, a small but growing radical intellectual movement has gained a degree of prominence. The members of this loosely defined group are very dissatisfied with the power of th...
review of Our Iceberg is Melting (John Kotter), which is about change strategy in organizations. Read as political philosophy and applied to the environmental crisis. Confrontation with Collapse (J...
THOMAS HOBBES AND THE INVENTED TRADITION OF POSITIVISM: REFLECTIONS ON
LANGUAGE, POWER, AND ESSENTIALISM
originally published in University of Pennsylvania Law Review January, 1987
&987, 1998 Ja...
We in the United States are facing an existential crisis across many fronts that was created by neglect, willful ignorance and partisan self-interest over the last three decades. Yet we can address...
The most natural and the most artificial:
Hobbes on imagination•
JUHANA LEMETTI
in Hobbes Studies, Vol. XVII-2005: 46-71
In his Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes illustrates the peculiar ways of the hum...
Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarka...
My senior honors thesis for Social Studies at Harvard, advised by T.M. Scanlon. It is a follow-up to Anarchy, State and Utopia, addressing arguments that have arisen since the book was published an...
A term paper for a seminar with Eric Beerbohm at Harvard. It explores the distinction between personal morality and political morality, which is as important as the empirical/normative distinction.