Excerpt from the book What Left and Right Mean What are the Far left and Far right? The simple answer is to say that they are extremes of the left and the right, but that is inadequate. There are individuals […]
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New Book: What Left and Right Mean
What Left and Right Mean: Clarifying the Political Spectrum Understanding the political spectrum and what motivates political actions have never been so vital. Politics is complex, and many political conflicts have considerable effects on our lives. We are all so […]
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Charles Sanders Peirce and the Nature of Belief
Peirce (1839-1914) developed the basic idea of pragmatism as a method for improving the accuracy of science in its search for truth. His father was a mathematician on faculty at Harvard University. This enabled the younger Peirce to get his […]
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What Is Political Philosophy?
Video Lecture. Click to watch. Text Transcript below: What is Political Philosophy? The point I’m trying to make here is that when we talk about political philosophy is that we strangely aren’t talking about Politics. Politics we all have a […]
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The Soul of a Philosopher
Philosopher for Hire Every now and then I am contacted by someone who wants to hire me to help them write a paper or book. I’ve had rewarding collaborations over the years, helping people form their ideas and polish their […]
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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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