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COVID cases are rising, and the Melbourne lockdown continues, becoming the longest in the world. Louis and Alex might feel their commitment to the community waning, but fortunately they've read Daniel A. Bell's writing on communitarian political theory and they're here to tell you why individual rights can and should be occasionally subordinated for the greater good. We give you episode five: what is communitarianism?  

 Sources used:   

Communitarianism and its Critics (1993) by Daniel A. Bell, Oxford University Press 

Communitarianism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/

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After a COVID-induced hiatus, Ideas Matter is back better than ever. Today we take a break from our usual format to consider a singular philosophy in greater depth, namely, Liberalism.

If workers are exploited, then why do they keep showing up to work? Louis Althusser gives us one reason: ideology.

I think, therefore I am. Or am I? In this episode we discuss infamous French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist René Descartes' seminal text: Meditations on the First Philosophy.

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Today we discuss the Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor. Taylor is Professor Emeritus at McGill University in Canada, and one of the world's most highly regarded contemporary philosophers. We discuss Taylor's political philosophy of Communitarianism, his critique of liberal individualism and what he describes as the "malaise of modernity".