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What Is Postmodernism?
Transcript: What is postmodernism? It’s a term people use mostly in terms of trying to insult something, but many people who use the term–both advocates for something called postmodernism or people vehemently against something called postmodernism–don’t really understand what […]
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The Political Spectrum — Part 5: What Is Liberalism?
Part 5 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 2: The Fake Axis Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right Part 4: What Is Conservatism? —– The Two “Liberals” […]
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Types of Possible Human Action: An Etude
We are all individuals embedded in a world. We each have a certain degree of freedom that is limited by the reality that we all share a physical world and a human society. Philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, […]
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The Political Spectrum — Part 4: What Is Conservatism?
Part 4 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 2: The Fake Axis Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right Part 5: What Is Liberalism? —– We have seen […]
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The Political Spectrum — Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right
Part 3 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 2: The Fake Axis Part 4: What Is Conservatism? Part 5: What Is Liberalism? In Part 1, I began to demythologize the […]
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The Political Spectrum - Part 2: The Fake Axis
Part 2 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right Part 4: What Is Conservatism? Part 5: What Is Liberalism? —– The traditional conception […]
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The Political Spectrum - Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean
Reclaiming terms that have become empty rhetoric. In my hopefully not fruitless attempt to bring serious philosophy to this site, this is the first in five articles on rethinking the concepts of the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and […]
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Recognition Part 3: History of Recognition Theory
Welcome to the insert philosophy here podcast. Inserting the principles of philosophy into real life. Welcome to part three of my series of podcasts on the concept of recognition, a very important concept in philosophy. In this podcast, I want […]
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Nonheteronormative Philosophy
There is a relatively new and growing field of philosophy about people outside the traditional binary designations of norms about gender and sexuality. Nonheteronormative sexuality has long been dismissed or repressed by European and American societies. In one respect, the […]
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