2024 Vol.1 No.1

This paper is written from an ‘insider’ and decades-long practitioner-based set of experiences whilst the author was working as an academic director of studies at the UK Police College, Bramshill. It begins by briefly identifying and characterising the College as a particularly distinct cultural institution. It underlines the fact that the academic staff found themselves constantly coping with ... more

Is it possible to think beyond the structuring and directing influences of thought-shaping? Or, phrased differently, how can thought-shaping be genuinely free and creative? My response in this essay is that we must move beyond the idea of thought-shaping as mere awareness or critical reflection. As I show, the notion of reflection itself has raised some philosophical issues of its own. Notably ... more

It might be surprising, and yet it can certainly be confirmed that the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France offered in her Fables (ca. 1190) a wide range of political, social, moral, and philosophical notions about the way people within her society should and could live together in a peaceful, just, and respectful manner. She did not question the foundations of feudalism or of monarchy, but she de... more

Existentialism dealt with the essence of human existence and established its priority over others where freedom of act for a conscious mind was the prime factor. Jean-Paul Sartre emphasized on such individual freedom with imposition of some liabilities over it for humanity. Sartre and other philosophers furnished different causes for such restrictions. However, the general concept of natural an... more

Human life makes sense only if the individual can achieve a certain degree of happiness. In order to address this topic in an insightful and effective way, this paper turns to a selection of medieval literary narratives where the focus specifically rests on happiness that an individual might achieve when the circumstances and the ideals are right. As human beings, happiness does not simply come... more