Theory with Purpose

Fragano Ledgister

Political theories, ancient, not-so-ancient, modern, and brand new, in modest, digestible bites.

  • 17 minutes 53 seconds
    Hobbes
    The political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
    18 October 2019, 4:37 pm
  • 32 minutes 36 seconds
    West Indian Creole Nationalism
    Political liberty in the Anglophone Caribbean. Liberty asserted against racism and for the subject people’s.
    19 September 2019, 11:12 pm
  • 18 minutes 10 seconds
    The Negro Question
    Thomas Carlyle’s racism & J.S. Mill’s response.
    6 September 2019, 12:03 am
  • 18 minutes 51 seconds
    Augustine
    The City of God vs. the human city.
    1 September 2019, 1:27 pm
  • 16 minutes 23 seconds
    Xunzi & Han Feizi
    The end of the Warring States: Legalism
    22 August 2019, 8:25 pm
  • 39 minutes 24 seconds
    The Negro Question
    Should the slaves of the British West Indies have been freed?
    15 August 2019, 7:26 pm
  • 16 minutes 43 seconds
    Mozi — Utilitarianism Chinese style
    Mozi, a utilitarian, egalitarian Chinese philosopher
    10 August 2019, 6:23 pm
  • 14 minutes 32 seconds
    Aristotle
    The best state, we can haz it.
    10 August 2019, 5:22 pm
  • 28 minutes 26 seconds
    Mencius— Chinese Democracy
    Mencius is the second major Confucian philosopher. Where Confucius was conservative, he stood for progressive principles.
    10 August 2019, 4:35 pm
  • 8 minutes 24 seconds
    A note on Duty
    A brief presentation on the Bhagavad Gita.
    5 August 2019, 5:40 pm
  • 30 minutes 9 seconds
    Plato, the Greek hierarchical ideal
    Plato’s Republic plus
    3 August 2019, 4:43 pm
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