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The Enlightenment was a period of ubiquitous cultural, social, and political change - but was it ... more The Enlightenment was a period of ubiquitous cultural, social, and political change - but was it the age of reason? To consider this question, I will explore reformation in the Enlightenment across five axes - individual identity, government, judicial, religious, and scientific, analysing their respective impact. This analysis will be performed specifically through the lens of two eminent philosophers of the period - Immanuel Kant and David Hume. I will then attempt to disseminate the views of each philosopher with regards to the nature of reason itself. I argue ultimately that whether or not the Enlightenment deserves the titular ‘age of reason’ is determined wholly by one’s understanding of reason.
The field of global justice is rife with academic disagreement on a number of fundamental questio... more The field of global justice is rife with academic disagreement on a number of fundamental questions - “What does ‘global’ mean in this context?”, “What would justice look like?”, “Who is best placed to achieve it?”, “Is the aim of global justice to set base standards, or as Stanley Hoffman describes, “starting from what is and groping towards the “ought”” (1991)?”. This essay will show that the lack of consensus on global justice is a microcosm of schisms present in international relations (IR) perspectives. This impasse renders a universal conception of global justice untenable and infeasible. More cogently, if one cannot construct a hypothetical, coherent solution to global justice, how will it be implemented?
The Enlightenment was a period of ubiquitous cultural, social, and political change - but was it ... more The Enlightenment was a period of ubiquitous cultural, social, and political change - but was it the age of reason? To consider this question, I will explore reformation in the Enlightenment across five axes - individual identity, government, judicial, religious, and scientific, analysing their respective impact. This analysis will be performed specifically through the lens of two eminent philosophers of the period - Immanuel Kant and David Hume. I will then attempt to disseminate the views of each philosopher with regards to the nature of reason itself. I argue ultimately that whether or not the Enlightenment deserves the titular ‘age of reason’ is determined wholly by one’s understanding of reason.
The field of global justice is rife with academic disagreement on a number of fundamental questio... more The field of global justice is rife with academic disagreement on a number of fundamental questions - “What does ‘global’ mean in this context?”, “What would justice look like?”, “Who is best placed to achieve it?”, “Is the aim of global justice to set base standards, or as Stanley Hoffman describes, “starting from what is and groping towards the “ought”” (1991)?”. This essay will show that the lack of consensus on global justice is a microcosm of schisms present in international relations (IR) perspectives. This impasse renders a universal conception of global justice untenable and infeasible. More cogently, if one cannot construct a hypothetical, coherent solution to global justice, how will it be implemented?