Plato in the Republic says: “There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, until ... political power and philosophy come into the same hands.” Remarkable, then, that philosophy has been so sidelined in recent decades, with fewer and fewer universities maintaining dedicated philosophy departments. Could this have contributed to the state that we’re now in globally? Maybe living the unexamined life has led us into deeper and deeper dumbness. Article 17 of the Lisbon treaty aims to remedy this problem of the marginalisation of secular and religious thoughtfulness from public life. However, since it...
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