Archive for 'Philosophy'
The Case Against Rights
Can we ever go back to those unbroken spells of love and life? Why are we born to see misery and fight death? Wouldn’t winning put an end to the purpose of life?
Posted: December 18th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Anarchism, Consensus, Freedom, Morals, Rights, Truth
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A Fable of Left and Right
Politics, in the end, are ethics : the quest for the “common good” that defines politics presupposes an understanding of what is “good” and what is “bad”. And the current world, despite its obsession with “rationality”, still fundamentally takes into account moral ideals such as “security” and/or “freedom”, “equality” and/or “opportunity”.
Posted: December 15th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Debate, Ethics, Left, Political system, Right
Comments: 1
Thoughts on Radical Feminism etc.
People in “civilised” societies seem to think that men and women are somehow two different species living on the same planet – and somehow “owning” that planet… but that’s a different issue. This post is more or less about radical feminism, and incidentally racism.
Posted: November 6th, 2010 under Philosophy, Writings.
Tags: Ethnocentrism, Feminism, Humanity, Ideology, Life, Patriarchy, Racism, Sexism, Society
Comments: 3
What is Reality?
The concept is the most fundamental unit of human cognition. The word concept is more self-explanatory than the word “word” itself: one may think of thought as an aggregate of concepts.
Posted: October 16th, 2010 under Philosophy.
Tags: Concepts, Existential void, Logic, Objectivity, Philosophy, Questions, Reality, Subjectivity
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What Does Freedom Mean? Basically
Much has been written on the concept of “freedom”. And yet it remains vague, and different meanings of the word are often used within a single context. That is because people’s opinion of what freedom should be irremediably taint their use of the world. This post aims to explain the basics of any coherent principle [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Freedom, God, Justice, Left, Order, Poor, Rich, Right
Comments: 1
The Tale of the Lighthouse-seeker
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~ Lewis Carroll
Posted: August 5th, 2010 under Philosophy, Writings.
Tags: Knowledge, Lighthouse, Personal Reality, Reality, Relativity, Tale, Truth, Universe
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Taming the Flow of Time
The concept of transcending time is not new. Immortality has been a recurrent dream of mankind since the dawn of times. Faced with recent developments in science and technology, one can but wonder if the idea of we humans vanquishing death in a way or another is truly the childish utopia its detractors have claimed [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2010 under Philosophy.
Tags: Immortality, Time, Transhumanism, Utopia
Comments: 1
The End of Cultural Specificities
The phone and television have become part of cultures worldwide to the point where we barely notice them. The synergy between people and these media is such that when someone states that he/she is using either of them, nobody will take notice of it as being anything out of the most ordinary everyday life.
Posted: May 13th, 2010 under Philosophy, Writings.
Tags: Communication, Culture, Innovation, Internet, Media, Technology
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On Abortion and the Vitalist Position
I was recently confronted to some of the anti-abortion crew. Nothing surprising there. What was rather unusual was that this opinion was not based on religion, but solely on the vitalist position, namely the idea that life begins with the very first single cell and should be considered sacred from that instant. Now, most will [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2010 under Philosophy.
Tags: Abortion, Developmentalism, Ethics, Rant, Religion, Vitalism
Comments: 3
Introduction to Anarcho-communism
While discussing on the Internet, I am often required to explain just what is this “anarcho-communism” I speak of. And furthermore, why would anyone think that society should work towards it rather than try to fix the political systems in place? This article will be a quick attempt at answering these questions as to avoid [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Anarchism, Anarcho-communism, Authoritarianism, Communism, Libertarianism, People, Private Property, State
Comments: 3
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