About Alan Ryan: Alan James Ryan is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.
It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high s...
Philosophy is the art of seeing through appearances to discern the hidden reality.
