The Dark Side of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: Civilisation and Civil War
Modern cosmopolitanism traces its routes back to the Enlightenment. In its individual and collectivist strains, it has become programatically pacifist...
Lectures in Intellectual History
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Recordings from the popular public lecture series on intellectual history in all its forms and across all ages. From 2014 held at the University of St Andrews, and between 2010 and 2013 held at the University of Sussex.
Scotland, Europe and the End of Enlightenment
Why did so many European luminaries who had lived through the turmoil of the French Revolution turn to Scotland as a state that might represent a mode...
Reflections on the Self Itself: in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and what happened next?
Are people’s characters and the values that shape them thought to be stable in terms of what we may judge to be virtuous or vicious performances acros...
Monarchs in democracy
The hallmark of Athenian democracy was equality. From at least the beginning of the 5th century, Athens was a place where there was equality in politi...
Karl Marx and the Emergence of Social Democracy
The years between 1864 and 1867 were among the most fulfilling of Marx’s life. Not only were these the years in which he wrote up Capital, it was also...
Maria Edgeworth as political thinker: government, rebellion and punishment
The issue of slavery is a constant in Maria Edgeworth’s thinking about questions of government, from the beginning of her writing career until the 182...
Cosmology and Ritual Magic in the Late Middle Ages
The importance of general celestial influences on the Earth in Aristotle’s cosmological model enabled the art of astrology to find a large degree of a...
Natural law and casuistic reasoning in Roman jurisprudence
There is no evidence for any Roman jurist writing a treatise entitled On Natural Law, or similar. Ius naturale had a very limited place in Roman juris...
Wordsworth’s “Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty” (1802-3) and the British Revolutionary Past
William Wordworth’s Sonnets Dedicated To Liberty are dominated by his personal and political connections with France, and his changing attitudes to Br...
Just War Doctrine in Ancient Egypt
In the literature of the Just War tradition there is an overdrawn association between the Just War tradition and Christian political theology. This pr...