Water on the brain

March 22, 2011
Water is so essential to life that its first mention in Genesis implies its pre-existing God’s very act of Creation: ‘And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters’ (Genesis, 1:2) But what were those mysterious ‘waters’? Some stagnant pond or a vast ocean,...

Who’s afraid of Jurgen Habermas?

March 6, 2011
Jurgen Habermas, the 81 year-old German thinker, has dedicated his academic life to the pursuit of a philosophical project aimed at clarifying and furthering the ideas of the Enlightenment, against the sceptical and critical views of postmodern critics. As a...

The rights of indigenous peoples

February 15, 2011
Have indigenous populations the right, not only to be protected from the threatening effects of globalization on their way of life, but also to be legally and politically supported in their claim to self-determination? The United Nations recognize in its Declaration...