I think Heidegger's most important claim here is that all metaphysics operates within the "horizon of production" and so this inversion between subjec...
On a very simplistic level, our ability to narrativize ourselves requires speech, which is inherently social. But on a deeper ontological level there'...
I'm reminded of the war games atmosphere created by the two Bush presidents in the "Highway of Death" and "Shock & Awe". I never expected more of Duby...
We are who we are Moliere: this is the truth of existentialism, that while there is no escape from what we are, there is no refuge there either. The p...
I couldn't quite figure out from the AP article whether this was Castile's 52nd traffic stop, or 53rd. Regardless, he was a veteran. The author of an ...
Marx already envisaged such a post-labour environment, in which meaningful work ceases to be a burden and becomes a need. I'm inclined to read the com...
If the media has an agenda, it likely can be summed up in terms of various attachments to globalization, which is viewed variously but within the "lib...
One of the stronger ironies in this situation is that many UK businesses will need to swallow EU regulations holus-bolus or lose their biggest export ...
A pox on both their houses! I avoid Israeli goods as I see no reason to treat them any differently than I would any other apartheid state. But I look ...
Bernie's ideas would be center left in Canada, in fact they pretty much coincide with Justin Trudeau's. The socialism implied here is quite compatible...
Okay, let's not get off topic here. Didn't Hillary murder someone in those dark days at the Rose Law Firm? Isn't she under investigation by the FBI? D...
Without Walmart, the American mouth-breather would be thoroughly fucked. Just imagine when president Trump puts a 45% duty on all of those Chinese goo...
But obviously then I don't (and never did) hold that proposition to be true. And it's quite clear to me that Tiff has other "reasons" for hating Hilla...
No doubt your rationalizations are evidence of something. But even if I stated "The only possible reason to hate Hillary Clinton is misogyny." the sta...
Maybe Bernie is the herald of a generational change in your politics. I certainly hope so. I'm haunted by the possibility of history repeating itself ...
Running on single payer health care might be the only strategy that could end with Trump in the White House. I find it hard to believe that Hillary co...
That's just risible Baden. Let's review Jill Stein's electoral record: "She received 456,169 votes for 0.36% in the election, making her the most succ...
Discipline? Bernie's troops are the Occupy crowd, they suffer from a kind of affluenza. Americans aren't ready for real progressivism, let alone socia...
I think they were both initiated by Hobbes mcdoodle. While the Koch brothers may not have read Hobbes, I'm sure they would find his thinking congenial...
Yes, but I wasn't really focusing on that example so much as turning it to thinking of conscience as a kind of self-coercion that is intricated in the...
My eyes glaze over when fables such as "state of nature" and "social contract" are brought into play. Power circulates anonymously behind us and throu...
Well BC, in this case the state was the municipal government. And clearly the decision not to condition the water on switching the source - a saving o...
It appears that the responsible person at the EPA's divisional office, the director Susan Hedman, resigned. Although I agree with Hillary Clinton that...
No surprise there Moliere, but perhaps Sanders' best hope is to influence a future Hillary administration. I don't think there's a window to turn back...
Well, Bush II precipitated a conflict throughout the middle east that will last for the next president's term(s) and beyond. Would you like to see if ...
Much like 1972 this election will be an opportunity for the U.S. to make a momentous mistake. Hillary Clinton is in the best position to exploit this ...
I'm reminded of Sixt Rodriguez here, although Searching for Sugar Man - like so many documentaries today - is on many levels a lie. Certainly one coul...
I'm the real conservative here: I see no reason to have anything other than a monogamous model of marriage, and I think the state should intervene as ...
I'm not sure I get this. Are you saying that a marriage is registered as closed or open? Does the couple register as closed or open on marriage? If so...
One thing we can be sure of is that if adultery were criminal, the burden would fall disproportionately on black males. What sort of maximum punishmen...
It is interesting that beating one's children (and wife) was once considered private behaviour - as they were property - and is now generally criminal...
More irrational posts. The only relevant question is whether Canadians believe that adultery should be criminalized. I'm not aware of any polling data...
In Canada, we're bringing in the refugees, 25,000 by the end of February. We're also supporting the Kurdish militias in Iraq who - as I understand it ...
The freedom of the individual from arbitrary authority - which goes far beyond an expectation of privacy - is considered by some scholars (rightly I t...
What is clear to me is that we Canadians make no such distinction, nor is adultery simpliciter any longer illegal in Canada or the U.S.. According to ...
Well, you and ISIS both believe that adulterers are criminals; you seem to disagree on the punishment. You both seem willing to brush away the subtlet...
If there are no prospective adulterers among the membership - people who can be encouraged or enabled to commit adultery - then it is very difficult t...
I'm all in favour of prosecutions for fraud, where warranted, but not prosecution for "anti-social behaviour", or a prosecution for fraud which is sel...
Ashley Madison is headquartered here in Canada. I'm not sure what you're suggesting, but I don't see our current Liberal government prosecuting them o...
If the people can vote in real change, and the change they vote for is the change they get, then there is political agency. I would argue that populis...
If your approach were solid research rather than hand-waving BC it would look a lot like the epidemiological research that was subject to an NRA initi...
On a related note, the U.S. urgently needs a Mass Shooting Channel to make some room for real news on cable. Oh, and they could leave the Republican d...
I always felt that PF suffered from pandering to analytical approaches and exiling more creative thinkers. I haven't been in "philosophy mode" of late...
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