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Carlos Fraenkel

Carlos Fraenkel is James McGill Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at McGill University. His most recent book is Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World.

Articles

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

Carlos Fraenkel

The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

Carlos Fraenkel

Teaching philosophy in Brazil is a political project.

Carlos Fraenkel

Forum Responses

I see Danielle Allen’s proposal as a form of inverted Platonism. Plato dismissed democracies as ships of fools, steered by ignorant sailors instead of a wise captain. By contrast, Allen wants a...
Carlos Fraenkel

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