John N. Gray
British political philosopher · United Kingdom · Academics · Born 1948 · age 78
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Something wrong?John Nicholas Gray is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas and philosophical pessimism. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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, The British state has defaulted on its core functions while attempting to remake society.
With other beliefs crumbling, many seek to return to what they piously describe as “Enlightenment values”.
In ancient Europe, Stoics asserted that a slave could be freer than a master who suffers from self-division.
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John Nicholas Gray is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas and philosophical pessimism. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, UnHerd, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is an atheist.
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