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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Tag: Politics
A Person Has Died; She Just Happened to Be Queen
Marcus Aurelius was ruler of the Roman Empire at arguably its height of power and prosperity. He nevertheless saw himself as a mere man, one compelled to be Emperor, and in no way greater than the common people. He just […]
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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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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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What IS America? A Philosophical Look at Being American
What IS America? What does it mean to be American? I ask these questions on July Fourth, a day when the United States commemorates its independence. That date and commemoration in itself is significant in it not being entirely true. […]
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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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Recognition Part 2: The Key to Social Justice
Why do injustices continue to happen? We say it is because of prejudice but what is prejudice? It is difficult to fight something that we cannot define and one of the important tasks in philosophy is understanding what is behind social phenomena like prejudice. Recognition is the key.
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Recognition, Part 1 - Why Ukrainians but not Syrians?
Listen here: Welcome to the Insert Philosophy Here podcast. Inserting the principles of philosophy into real life. In this week’s episode of the Insert Philosophy Here podcast’s philosophical look on current world events, the dominant world event, of course, is […]
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