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Elizabeth Cripps
Elizabeth Blanche Cripps is a British political philosophy, political philosopher. She is a Senior lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research addresses environmental philosophy, including questions around climate change, population and parenting, environmental ethics, environmental politics, and environmental justice. Career From 1995–9, Cripps studied at St John's College, Oxford, St John's, University of Oxford, initially reading Maths and philosophy, and then Philosophy, politics and economics, Politics, philosophy, and Economics. She subsequently worked as a journalist, both freelance and for the Financial Times, Financial Times Group. She returned to academia in 2003, undertaking an MPhil (2003–05) and PhD (2005–08) in philosophy at University College London (UCL). Her PhD thesis was entitled ''Individuals, Society and the World: A Defence of Collective Environmental Duties''. During her studies, she taught variously at UCL, West London Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Philosophy
Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and Political legitimacy, legitimacy of political institutions, such as State (polity), states. This field investigates different forms of government, ranging from democracy to authoritarianism, and the values guiding political action, like justice, equality, and liberty. As a normative field, political philosophy focuses on desirable norms and values, in contrast to political science, which emphasizes empirical description. Political ideologies are systems of ideas and principles outlining how society should work. Anarchism rejects the coercive power of centralized governments. It proposes a stateless society to promote liberty and equality. Conservatism seeks to preserve traditional institutions and practices. It is skeptical of the human ability to radically Social change, reform society, arguing that drastic changes can destroy the wisdom of past generations. Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
