The Karlovian
A media platform by PPE Students of Charles University (BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics)
Between Districts and Dialects: Can we imagine a map of identity not drawn in lines, but woven in words?
By: M. Azzam Rakan Noor Growing up in a city where regional language felt alienated from daily life, I often felt disconnected from the places my parents came from. My mother, a Sundanese woman, speaks fluently with her friends and family, but she never really passed the language down to me. Driven by a growing…
Recent Articles
-
Political Philosophy Basics: Mill on Individual Liberty
Welcome to a new series on the basics of political philosophy. Understanding political philosophy is essential to properly understand the way the world around us functions. From the way our governments are structured, how much authority they have over us as individuals to intra and interstate conflict, the centuries of thought encompassed in PolPhil is…
-
Students’ Community for Ukraine: Uniting to Support
The new academic year has just started, but we already have a new student organisation to tell you about! Students’ Community for Ukraine is an organisation founded by Ukrainian students of Charles University to support, unite and organise events for other young Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. But if you think that it would not…
-
If Aristotle & Plato Had Talked About Oranges
Last night I had a thought. In Spanish, there is a famous metaphor about love and oranges. It is said that when you find your person, your partner for life, you find your “media naranja” or half an orange. Your other half if you will. Now, it wasn’t until recently I started having problems with…
-
Starship Troopers: The Image of the Republic of the Future or Fascist Society?
Starship Troopers novel. What a weird choice for an essay on political philosophy, right? According to some prominent thinkers like Hannah Arendt, politics is not just thoughts of the philosophers of higher standing and debates in parliaments. Politics is often created in the discussions in bars among friends. This way, political thought condenses into and…
-
An Incoming PPE Student’s Guide to Prague
You’ve just arrived in the Czech Republic, an incoming fresh-faced aspiring PPE student, and you feel totally lost in Prague. How does the public transport system work? How do you get student discounts for, well… anything? How do you find your footing and anchor yourself in your PPE community?
-
Völkisch Germanic Nationalism & the Belonging
When we talk about the creation, development or construction of the nation we have to take into consideration factors which are further away from the logical or concrete matters which build the nowadays legal & political bureaucratic-institutionalized structure that govern the contemporary societies. There are other factors which bound us as a group. But the…
-
Mexico, a Member of the BRICS+ ?
An etiolated plan The drums anticipating the entrance of the untold G2(China & Russia) and its economic & political group are rumbling throughout the whole international system and the former global hegemonic power shivers but what does the southern neighbor’s strategy says? The group of the BRICS+ representing a new big package of “reforming” economies…
-
Should You Wear a Tie?
At the first instance, this simple question poised may seem like a no-brainer. Even in the 21st century, ties are still a staple – and often the centrepiece of a formal wardrobe. As such, they are (sometimes justifiably) viewed as conservative, stifling and uncomfortable to wear. However, what can we learn from an era gone…