Category: Political Thought
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Justice and the Good Society: Plato, Aristotle and Ancient Greek Political Thought
What makes a person or political community just? This essay examines Plato’s philosopher-rulers and ordered soul alongside Aristotle’s accounts of virtue, practical wisdom, citizenship and the common good – while confronting the exclusions underpinning the ancient polis.
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Louis Althusser: Ideology, Institutions and the Politics of Philosophy
Althusser transformed Marxist accounts of ideology by locating them in institutions, rituals and everyday practices. This essay explains structural causality, interpellation, state apparatuses and philosophy as political practice – alongside the major criticisms of his approach.