All That Is Meaningful Is Imaginary

The following series of joint blog posts by Azarius and Reikoku is the result of long, at times painful, debates on the nature of political ideals, utopias, and ethics. Indeed, politics, in the end, amount to ethics applied to a community of “responsible adults” – the Greek polis. Accordingly, the common axiom that sparked our [...]

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”.

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 [...]