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Everybody happier: we all want that, but at what cost?
The utilitarians Bentham and Mill came up with measuring the moral value of behaviour by its contribution to human happiness. An ambitious idea, but…
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Tolerant according to Immanuel Kant
If the church is no longer in charge, how can we still know the difference between good and bad behaviour? Immanuel Kant showed how individuals could…
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How we ended up in modernity
The Reformation brought us the dawn of modernity, bringing prosperity and unease. Here you can read how modernity still defines our society, and…
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How democracies can become tyrannical
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Our universal human rights are dated and not universal
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Before Christ
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Main and side issues according to Erasmus
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How Mussolini had a leader of the opposition assassinated
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On pragmatic rulers and subjugated nations
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Freedom of conscience as a right
You have the human right to say what you think and to worship who you want, even if others find your religion or your ideas objectionable. In this…
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How we got freedom of conscience
For ages, freedom of conscience stood for impiety, immorality and anarchy. But in the 17th century, that started to change. In this article you'll read…
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The mediaeval conscience was different from ours
The medieval conscience was nominally free, but it gradually became more and more restricted by the church. About the history of conscience, from the…
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A free conscience: what is it, and how did we get it?
Freedom of conscience is an important topic; I have taken plenty of time to write the following articles. Why is it so important? To put it bluntly, I…
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With the arrival of a comet in 1680, the moral superiority of Christianity vanished
Does religion lead to more or less tolerance? Pierre Bayle dropped a bombshell in 1682: a society without religion was not such a bad idea at all. The…
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Religious toleration can be profitable
Religious pragmatism in the Early Modern Period, part 3: how 17th Century Netherlands and England discovered that religious toleration can make nations…
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The prince of Orange's brilliant compromise with religion in the Netherlands
The flexible Orange and the rigid Calvinists. Religious pragmatism in the Early Modern period part 2: The Netherlands. How religious toleration came…
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