in search of global justice

Thom Brooks interviewed by Richard Marshall.

Thom Brooks kicks philosophy onto the Global streets looking for justice. He’s at home with law, philosophy and public policy. He’s got hard things to say about the UK Citizenship test, finds the issue of global justice a core issue for us all, and Hegel’s Philosophy of Right a key text. He broods deeply on theories of punishment and thinks he’s continuing the tradition of the British Idealists. He thinks hard about natural law internalism and theories of just war. He judges John Rawls a deep groove, Martha Nussbaum his fave living philosopher both for her capabilities approach and large vision and considers Indian philosophy part of the increasingly global philosophical scene.