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06, 2016
Liberal Values in Market Society
By: Jeremy Kingston Much of political philosophy concerns itself with devising a priori systems (derived purely from theory) for organizing
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06, 2016
Heart-Mind Cosmos: Panentheism in Mahayana Buddhism And Early 19th Century German Idealism
In the 17th century, Issac Newton wrote laws of nature in the language of mathematics. These laws were so convincing that Newtonian science became the ruling paradigm in European thought. But in a universe of mechanistic determinism, is there room for psyche, soul, ethics, and free will? To solve this problem, German idealism traced a philosophic path trod earlier in 4th century India.
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06, 2016
Was Nietzsche an Aristocratic Elitist?
By: Ippolit Belinski An earlier version of this article appeared on Paradox of the Day. Nietzsche is often portrayed as
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05, 2016
What Fascism Is Not, What It Is, and Why It Matters
Howl of the Day: May 31, 2016 Fascism, as a term, has become almost synonymous with injustice. And this common
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05, 2016
Judge Posner on Meta-Ethics and Rational vs. Nonrational Argumentation
Moral theory is like a system of mathematics that has never gotten beyond addition.” — R. POSNER
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05, 2016
Silence as Speech: Reading Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño in the Light of her Final Silence
Sor Juana’s silence is difficult to “read,” but it is easy to hear. What can it show us about the way the absence of speech can itself be a mode of participation in public discourse?
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05, 2016
Sullivan, Trump, and Tyranny in America
Howl of the Day: May 3, 2016 Veteran political commentator and online media all-star, Andrew Sullivan, emerged from semi-retirement yesterday,
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04, 2016
Buddha’s Political Philosophy
By: Stefan Schindler Do not build fifty palaces, your highness. After all, you can only be in one room at
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03, 2016
Trigger Warning: You Are Not Triggered!
A conversation between the Editors of Political Animal and a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology about the misuse of the
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03, 2016
Sanders at Dearborn: A Socialist Love-Story
The idea that Bernie Sanders' support among Arabs and Muslims suggests there is little anti-Semitism in America is as absurd as the idea that there is no more racism in America, since it has elected a black president. Sanders is a democratic socialist, and socialism is one of the few Western political ideologies to have taken root in a big way in the Arab and Muslim world. This is a better explanation