Philosophy and Theology

I believe that the primary purpose of education is to improve one’s ability to recognise and appreciate value. I have found linguistics and philosophy to be two of the greatest means to this end. Linguistics, because language is our primary way of expressing ideas. And philosophy because it is the t

2017 Personal Statement Despite being born into post-1989 capitalist hegemony, the occasional fallibilities of a market economy can be evident. On a language course in Montpellier, I witnessed social riots against national workplace reforms. I had a first-hand glimpse of the political effects of an

The Arab Spring Movement sparked a key realisation for me. I consciously recognised the privileges I had been granted growing up in a democratic country and I came to understand that free and fair systems are still not practised worldwide. Whilst democracy, free enterprise and human rights have flou