Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and of Social and Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Christian List is Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK. We thank Steven Brams, Dennis Mueller, Franz Dietrich and three anony...

The latest fad in Continental philosophy is an unexpected one. Goodbye to Lacan and Derrida and even Deleuze. Hello to the Apostle Paul. Atheist philosophers like Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek have coopted Paul to their own agendas, and in their wake Jewish thinkers like Jacob Taubes and radically orthodox Christian theologians (the usual suspects) have given fresh attention to the apostle. Of ...

The early modern emphasis on tradition is perhaps clearest in the history of women during this period, as at the core of each culture was an ingrained patriarchy dating back thousands of years. In the West, for example, attitudes towards women were shaped by three strains of ancient European tradition: first, Judeo-Christian belief, which characterized women as either saintly, like the Virgin M...

According to Socrates, as he is described in Plato?s Phaedo, the definition of a true philosopher wise man who continuously practicing dying and being dead. Already this life, tries free his soul from body order acquire knowledge progressively becoming detached body. Centuries after it was written, Phaedo continued play role for some early Christian authors, article focuses on three instances w...