Philosophy

David Stockton describes an important stage in the life of Cicero, the Roman philosopher, politican and theorist.

F.M.H. Markham profiles Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, the French political theorist and early advocate for a centralised, technocratic society.

The great political philosopher was born on April 5th, 1588.

Graham A. MacDonald reappraises the ideas and impact of the 20th-century political thinker, Michael Oakeshott.

Yvonne Sherratt explores the ways in which Adolf Hitler attempted to appropriate the ideas of some of Germany’s greatest thinkers during his brief incarceration in 1924.

As prophet and economist, Marx is a familiar figure. But what, asks Lindley Fraser, was his real contribution to the writing of history?

Adrian Brunel profiles the influential revolutionary pamphleteer and political philosopher.

L.B. Namier investigates the “ever-recurring divergence between fixed ideas and a changing reality”.

T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.

Maurice Cranston assesses the background and impact to Thomas Hobbes' masterwork of religious and political philosophy.

Charles Seltman analyses the role of the darker deity in Ancient Greece. Second of a two part series. The first part can be read here.

Sir Kenneth Clark discovers echoes of both ancient and modern in a true Renaissance man.

Jean Lindsay queries the medieval path of scientific enquiry.