King & Leavey offer some helpful reflections on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, as a basis for better understanding the relationship between spirituality and psychiatry. In A Secular Age, Taylor, a leading philosopher and Templeton Prize winner, charts the currents by which we may understand secularity to have become what it is in Western society today. However, King & Leavey interpret his soph...

King & Leavey offer some helpful reflections on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, as a basis for better understanding the relationship between spirituality and psychiatry. In A Secular Age, Taylor, a leading philosopher and Templeton Prize winner, charts the currents by which we may understand secularity to have become what it is in Western society today. However, King & Leavey interpret his soph...

Dijital çağın hızlı döngüsünde bir taraftan her gün şiddetin farklı şekilleriyle tanışan insanoğlu, da yüzyıllardır süre gelen ve çözümsüz hale gelmiş ötekileştirme garabetine cevap aramaya çalışmaktadır. Bu çalışma; geçtikçe evrildiği kılıklara girdiği dünyada 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında dönemde sadece barışla, şiddetsiz eylemle, yürüyüşle şiddete karşı koyan Martin Luther King’e odaklanmakt...

Considering the Theaetetus and Statesman together – as the two dialogues explicitly said to flank the Sophist -both raises and suggests answers to questions about the relationship between philosopher and statesman, and the relationship between Socrates and the Eleatic Stranger. It is argued that aspects of the Theaetetus ‘Digression’ on the nature of philosophers serve to criticise the question...

Editor's note In this paper Mr Stalley explores the role of the doctor through comparing and contrasting medicine and politics, but aims to illuminate the role of the physician rather than look at the nature of politics as many previous philosophers have done. Mr Stalley takes the extremes of the doctor as a 'philosopher king' and then as a 'technician' to illustrate the point that either one o...

Biopolitics has brought new perspectives on power relations in society with the conceptualization of Michelle Foucault. Although history concept goes back to past, biopolitics been used analyze and social many areas from body control population politics, thanks Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben carried another point contributed his studies sovereignty. Unlike Foucault, who claims that is a mo...