To ask whether a society is just is to ask how it distributes the things we prize – income and wealth, duties and rights, powers and opportunities, offices and honours. Read More
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Judgements about The Prince tend to be of two types: judgements about Machiavelli’s intentions in writing it, and judgements about the work itself. Read More
Free speech is the freedom on which all other freedoms depend, for without the right to communicate ideas and information all other freedoms can be suppressed without protest or opposition. In the words of George Washington: "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter". Read More
You hold a terrorist who has planted a bomb, which will go off shortly killing many innocent people. The only way to find the bomb and defuse it is to torture the terrorist. In these circumstances is not the use of torture justified as being the lesser of two evils?