Justice as fairness or justice as capabilities? John Rawls vs Amartya SenThis article sets out some of the key concepts found in Justice as Fairness, a theory of justice propounded by John Rawls, and then…May 30, 2022May 30, 2022
How much do we know about the actual meaning of ‘Hysteria’?Hysteria was recognised as a medical condition long before the nineteenth-century. Despite its prevalence, however, the understanding of…Nov 21, 2019Nov 21, 2019
Is the social construction of identity a ‘performance’?The notion of identity is commonly contested in the disciplines of sociology and psychology and due to its subjective nature there is no…Mar 25, 2019Mar 25, 2019
Hagia Sophia, ‘The Holy Wisdom’, a basilica, mosque or museum?Religion can be considered as the most important element of humans’ life in the Middle Ages because the workings of society were…Mar 25, 2019Mar 25, 2019
To what extent are people responsible for their implicit attitudes?Implicit attitudes are delineated as ‘introspectively unidentified (or inaccurately identified) traces of past experience that mediate…Mar 21, 2019Mar 21, 2019
State of Nature: Locke vs HobbesMy aim is to draw a comparison between Thomas Hobbes’s and John Locke’s conceptualisation of the state of nature with regards to their…Mar 21, 20191Mar 21, 20191
Does the state always represent a particular economic interest?The state is a very distinct and complicated institutional phenomenon, which occurs in a political economy and is defined by numerous…Mar 19, 2019Mar 19, 2019
