It's mystifying when it serves as a reductionist explanation for something like contemporary practices of tax evasion. Why the practices revealed in t...
To a state, these two are indistinguishable. Their primary concern is any challenge to their monopoly of violence (and ideology), and so their monopol...
To use something like 'human nature' (qua 'natural law', perhaps biologically coded) to explain the current situation of tax evasion I think is mystif...
I'm not insisting otherwise, but just seeing why, in principle, unborn babies couldn't enjoy the kind of existence that some attribute to fictional ch...
Why not? What would qualify an unborn person being a fictional character? Does it have to be in a published novel or short story? What about unpublish...
I tried giving them a shot, got about a third of the way through the first one before I put it down. I really don't think the books are any better, bu...
They can enjoy a particular kind of existence, as fictional characters. Or barring discussions on the existence of fictional entities, or modal realis...
Keep in mind that Mossack Fonseca is the fourth-largest offshoring law firm. The three others are likely to contain a majority of the world's elite. I...
I'm picking up what you're putting down. I'd add though that, while 'ego-enhancement' (and wanting to gain the most social capital or whatever), doesn...
I don't know what you mean by "deification of the risk". And I would agree that wealth and power insulates one from reality, or at least a major aspec...
Think of it like a giant echo chamber, with the elite having control of the most sophisticated and powerful instruments and sound equipment, and endle...
This is a central part of my point and I don't think it contradicts my view of ideology and control. The elite grow up and exist in an idiosyncratic s...
Our culture does it, and pretty much every culture in some form or another and to some degree of severity or another. The point is that in doing so, w...
Edward Bernays, the father of modern public relations, penned the following in his book Propaganda: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the...
I think when it comes to looking at the broad cultural effects of media, it is a bit wrong-headed to rest our conclusions on being able to demonstrate...
'Ownership' is a legal contrivance created to regulate a situation and set of practices that were already at work in society before it was written int...
More topical to the OP, since his posting, Bernie has swept Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska. But it is not enough, as it is likely Hillary will sweep N...
Having left the United States myself for some time (albeit nowhere long as your stated 23 years), encountered countless travellers from all across the...
We're obviously working with different definitions. Going by the traditional usage of those terms in the literature, having both 'private property wit...
Seems like a lot of people's posts are shot-through with an undercurrent of contradiction; that is, between our 'ideal-state' and what we could reason...
Why not? Ideally, the spaces where the actual decision-making is happening should be the most public. Although I'm reminded of something that Yanis Ve...
I suspect this is the sentiment that runs deep in the popular political psyche in America, and it's probably why Bernie Sanders performs better in hea...
Okay, have you conducted an empirical study of 'Marxist governments' and its level of totalitarian power over the individual? What 'Marxist states' do...
You're just spewing ideology but missing the point. Those same governments that place restrictions on government to protect individual rights also hav...
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. Don't all governments necessarily back up their authority on principles that the state maintains some lev...
Of course there are certain restrictions and limitations. I don't think anyone is claiming otherwise. Like I said in the sentence prior to the one you...
The Dialogic Imagination - Mikhail Bakhtin The Ecology of Freedom - Murray Bookchin Libra - Don DeLillo I have Transcritique: On Kant and Marx by Koji...
Actually Marx is occasionally criticized by political theorists within the Marxist tradition for having too overly-emphasized groups of people as self...
I don't recall him focusing specifically on spacial or physical characteristics as a part of "form" either. But I suspect Freud would consider those a...
This is a fair observation and one that I wouldn't object to. But I think there's something worth pointing out about philosophy as a craft. As per my ...
Absolutely not. In some trivial sense, everyone does philosophy in that they, perhaps sometimes on a lonely night, 'wonder what it's all about', or ha...
For Heidegger, Dasein is being whose own being is an issue for it, and it is also related to the fundamental basis of being-in-the-world as conditione...
Professional philosophy? More often than not. Okay, I won't be facetious. Your question is about 'philosophy' proper. It will come down to what we thi...
Huh? That's not right. The 'dicks' is probably tongue-and-cheek (ba dum ch'), but it still reflects a misunderstanding to consider Freud's concern wit...
I think that it ultimately depends on worldview. The meaning of particular events emerges when it is fit coherently as a part of a narrative or contex...
I don't necessarily think that the debate should hinge on the particular ontological status of whatever (if at all) a purportedly fictional or nonfict...
As far as Derrida goes, he would resist the idea that your experience, your dreams, or some 'inner' unarticulated psychological reality offer some fou...
One can observe that nationalism today not only persists but is rearing its ugly head in new movements. Far-right nationalist parties are gaining in p...
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