Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) showed future generations the principles to understand industrialization as the birth of cultural and social phenomena connected to the division of labour. Furthermore, these authors combined contrasting elements such as...

The United States and many other countries are now experiencing the first major financial crisis in over 75 years, a condition that too many people have been quick to blame on an outbreak of greed that they claim is characteristic of capitalism. Blaming a financial crisis on greed, however, is...

Moral philosophers have often grappled with defining rights and duties without looking to the overall consequences of certain rules. The leading defender of that position is Immanuel Kant, whose moral theory talks about how to universalize given norms without regard to their consequences. In...