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Navigating Leadership Choices Through the Wisdom of Plato and Machiavelli
In the unfolding landscape of 2024, the world is witnessing more than just another election year; it is undeniably an election year of unparalleled...
“Wanting To Know Nothing of Truth”: The Origins of Trump-Inflicted Harms
"The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth." -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time...
Exploring Mannheim’s Concept of Utopias and Their Relationship to Reality
A utopia, according to Karl Mannheim, is a theoretical construct that portrays a hypothetical perfect society devoid of the flaws and concerns of current...
Life Against Death: True Meanings of World Politics
In the final analysis, world politics is not about geostrategic competition, military weapons or relative power. Appearances notwithstanding, such politics more deeply represent the...
Science, Philosophy and Truth: Are We Prepared For “Covid II”?
"The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth."-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971)
The...
About The Author and The Introduction to Eating the Dust
Dr. Ambrose Cato George holds the following academic qualifications: B.Sc. In Zoology and Botany (Unisa), Secondary Teacher’s Diploma-postgraduate (UWC), B.Ed. - distinction in Philosophy...
Principles of International Relations as Homo Sapiens
After listening to Hariri’s Home Sapiens, I grasped, with a new perspective, the state of our humanity. I deeply realized that indeed we are...
Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again
In 1962, Herman Kahn riveted the US defense community with a book titled Thinking About the Unthinkable. Far ahead of its time, the American...
“…Like A Field Of Ripe Corn” -The Origins Of American “Mass”
“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.” -T S Eliot
For the most part, what...
Legal Order In World Politics: A Hobbesian Dilemma
“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII
A Hobbesian World
The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics...