Essay competitions in Social Sciences(Sir Nicholas Bacon Prize, Robson History Prize)

Ah Russell is great, I always try and see how my interpretations differ from his too. I really recommend 'The Conquest of Happiness' by him on the meaning of life and 'Problems of Philosophy on the limitations of the field.

Ah Rousseau is cool, especially his stuff on nature. I'm not so sure about all of his work on living like we are in ancient Sparta without any luxuries but its pretty interesting.

Exactly. That's what makes me so mad, there's a few hundred lines in all of Marx's work on what a society should look like he mostly worked on capitalism yet nobody even bothers to read it. Watch the School of Life on Marx, its great.

Haha yeah man! Most people my age, even if they are interested in politics talk about party politics, when I'm more interested in ideology and political philosophy. I'd say I'm pretty close to Rousseau and Russell so a left-libertarian, or anarchist. I'd say I'm a socialist but I'm against totalitarian, soviet-esque 'socialism' so together thats called anarcho-syndicalism.

I think I've added you, theres like several people side to side.

I havent read that much into the Greeks but I intend to. What would you advise?

Ah cheers man thats great I'll have a look. I dont know how good your English but it seems great so there's a talk by Tamar Gendler on 'Big Think' on youtube thats on three different views of social contract theory thats really worth a watch.

Ah I set up a debate club I my school, it was a pretty good way of finding fellow leftists. I'd say broadly though yes though there are a few things I differ from him on and I'm sceptical about some of his Linguistics work. I've emailed Chomsky a couple of times and he replies every time, apparently he's been doing it for years just advising people on subjects and providing sources and stuff. Yeah do you know Chomsky wrote a book about Occupy? Worth a read its only 60 pages or something, I think you could get it online for free. Yeah and it actually works too, Amazon started paying their taxes last week. Ah good, glad I could help.

I've done about three hundred words but I'm struggling to find anything to pin down as it is such a broad question. I cant really find anything to read either.

Yeah I have. Cheers man, I'll have a look.

Haha no way!! What was the topic?

No worries, glad it was helpful.

Thats great man cheers, I've found some other stuff that's useful too. Yeah that'd be great, its [email protected]