Vaclav Havel – Human Rights
A few words about Vaclav Havel first. In 1989, he participated in the “Velvet Revolution” and became a leader. First president of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, he declared …
Category: Philosophy
The moral of Solomon’s judgment
The Judgment of Solomon is one of the most famous illustrations of justice. Is it a good way to do justice, you will be better able to decide after reading …
The revolution in Utopia – Thomas More
In Utopia, book I, Thomas More shows his idealized conception of the government of the men. A certain Raphael Hythlodeus, the navigator who discovered the island of Utopia, formulates a …
Pascal – Justice and injustice
Blaise Pascal’s thought number 66 gives us several teachings on what justice is, which we have divided into three parts. 1. The people obey on the sole condition that they …
Albert Camus – Revolt and revolution
Albert Camus, in The Revolted Man, addresses the question of the difference between revolt and revolution. For Albert Camus, the revolution aims to “transform the world” (from Karl Marx, leads …
Aristotle – Poverty and wealth
Aristotle wrote about poverty and wealth in a scattered way in The Nicomachean Ethics. Here are some excerpts: Everyone equates living well and being successful with being happy. But as …