The founding statement of liberal political theory, John Locke’s Two Treaties of Civil Government, opens with the following statement: Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it […]
Entries Tagged as 'International Politics'
Democracy and Legitimacy
December 5th, 2006 Comments Off on Democracy and Legitimacy
Tags: Declaration of Independence · Fiji · John Locke · Liberty · Role of the State · War Ethics
Only in Fiji…
December 2nd, 2006 Comments Off on Only in Fiji…
It seems the coup in Fiji has been delayed by a rugby match … only in Fiji! Bainimarama has put the coup so he could watch a game of rugby between Police and the Army – couldn’t let a coup get in the way of that! So the coup has been put on hold to […]
Tags: Bainimarama · Fiji · Rugby
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
