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Robespierre and ‘The Radically Evil’ Revolution
PHILOSOPHY

Robespierre and ‘The Radically Evil’ Revolution

The reign of terror of ‘the fanatic of an ideal’ led to a bloodbath instead of the realisation of ideas.

Soma Hegedős
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02.03.2022
From Natural Law to Natural Rights: The Contentious Legacy of John Locke
PHILOSOPHY

From Natural Law to Natural Rights: The Contentious Legacy of John Locke

John Locke’s philosophy of the natural law did provide the means for people in liberal democracies to overcome all types of discrimination and segregation, simultaneously protecting our civil liberties.

Mario Alexis Portella
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28.02.2022
The Notion of the Natural Law in Islam
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The Notion of the Natural Law in Islam

There is very little sense of an objective, rational order in Islam because Allah’s laws do not have to conform themselves to any natural and rational order.

Mario Alexis Portella
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17.02.2022
‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Walter Rauschenbusch
PHILOSOPHY

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Walter Rauschenbusch

In this piece, we venture to America again to immerse in the thoughts of Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918).

Ádám Darabos
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15.02.2022
The Paradox of Hugo Grotius’s Concept of the Natural Law
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The Paradox of Hugo Grotius’s Concept of the Natural Law

While Grotius had the best of intentions, he inadvertently paved the way for the atheistic philosophy of the Enlightenment and today’s effective altruism that has reduced the human person to a mere statistic.

Mario Alexis Portella
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08.02.2022
Written Constitutions: The Illusory Phenomenon of Legal Certainty
PHILOSOPHY

Written Constitutions: The Illusory Phenomenon of Legal Certainty

Law professor James Allan claims that although written constitutions are very popular around the world, they may not deliver what they promise to citizens.

Soma Hegedős
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05.02.2022
The Roots of Today’s Secular Individualism
PHILOSOPHY

The Roots of Today’s Secular Individualism

Paradoxically, the present-day misconstrued idea of secular individualism, which was fully developed during the Enlightenment, has its roots in early Christianity. 

Mario Alexis Portella
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25.01.2022
Hungarian Conservative Thought: A Competitive Advantage
PHILOSOPHY

Hungarian Conservative Thought: A Competitive Advantage

The guiding thread of Hungarian conservative thinking has always been to represent the Hungarian national interest, and thus the preservation of the country’s sovereignty and freedom—this is understood to supersede any theoretical concepts.

Balázs Orbán
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04.01.2022
‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
PHILOSOPHY

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

In this article, we would like to highlight a particular detail of Böckenförde’s thinking—specifically his conception of the relationship between Catholics and the state.

András Jancsó
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09.12.2021
‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics – H. Richard Niebuhr
PHILOSOPHY

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics – H. Richard Niebuhr

In this article, the insightful ideas of an essential American protestant theologian from the last century will be recalled.

Ádám Darabos
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08.12.2021
‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Johann Baptist Metz
PHILOSOPHY

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Johann Baptist Metz

In the article we briefly introduce the ‘new political theology’ of Johann Baptist Metz (1928-2019), a contemporary of Ratzinger’s and a defining figure in 20th-century German theology.

András Jancsó
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16.11.2021
The Myth of the Secular State
PHILOSOPHY

The Myth of the Secular State

Does the model of the ‘secular’ state—that is, a state devoid of any religious foundations, as presumed by the narrative of separation—exist at all, or is only a myth of the modern era?

Tamás Nyirkos
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01.11.2021
‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Joseph Ratzinger
PHILOSOPHY

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: Joseph Ratzinger

We present a brief introduction to the political thinking of an eminent contemporary Catholic theologian, Joseph Ratzinger (1927–), the subsequent Pope Benedict XVI.

András Jancsó
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06.09.2021
‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics – Reinhold Niebuhr
PHILOSOPHY

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics – Reinhold Niebuhr

This article examines a nowadays less quoted part of Reinhold Niebuhr’s thought, which is also related to his emphasis on the sinfulness of human nature, the idea of the ‘easy conscience of man’.

Ádám Darabos
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27.08.2021
The Philosopher and the Politician
PHILOSOPHY

The Philosopher and the Politician

Being politically modern means the hope that people are able to take their own life into their hands and be their own masters, and that the human condition can be completely understood and controlled.

mindenki
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05.07.2021
The Values and Guidelines of Twenty-first-century Conservatism
PHILOSOPHY

The Values and Guidelines of Twenty-first-century Conservatism

A kind of manifesto for conservative values that we can perhaps all commit to in these turbulent times.

PhD Candidates at the BLF
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11.04.2021
The Re-emergence Of Sovereignty
PHILOSOPHY

The Re-emergence Of Sovereignty

The political debates of the last half decade show that the concept of sovereignty has revived in the political public.

András Karácsony
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11.04.2021
National Identity in Roger Scruton’s Work
PHILOSOPHY

National Identity in Roger Scruton’s Work

Scruton wrote that the foundation of democracy is not necessarily liberalism but a sense of national loyalty.

Krzysztof Brzechczyn
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01.04.2021
We the Natives
PHILOSOPHY

We the Natives

In the age of soft colonization and hybrid neo-colonialism, the war of independence must be fought in the cultural field in the first place.

Márton Békés
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01.04.2021
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