Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the metaphorical absolute sovereign created by the social contract to guarantee peace and order. In contemporary political theory, the term is used to describe how corporate entities have fractured that sovereignty, acquiring legal personhood and coercive influ
...
If you found this valuable, consider supporting our work.
Unlock high-density masterclasses and investigations into ideas surviving outside the algorithmic consensus. Support independent thought and get full access to our digital library.
Join NowJustified true belief (JTB) is not sufficient for knowledge because, as the Gettier problem shows, a person can have a justified true belief that is true only due to luck or accident, which disqualifies it as knowledge. The three JTB conditions must be supplemented or replaced to account f
The Paradox of the Court is an ancient legal-rhetorical puzzle attributed to the Sophist Protagoras, in which a teacher and his student appear to have equally irrefutable arguments in a lawsuit over tuition, creating a logical loop that seems to make justice impossible.
Collective responsibility is the philosophical concept that a group—not just its individual members—can bear blame, accountability, or obligation for actions and outcomes. It covers cases from a state's historical crimes to a corporation's environmental harms.
Press Enter for deep search · Esc to close