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11, 2018
Lady Gaga and Moral Reasoning
Lady Gaga rightly encourages us to respect and accept all people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. But at this juncture Lady Gaga's thinking become problematic. Respecting and accepting all people doesn’t automatically also mean that we should accept and affirm all the behaviours of all people.
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11, 2018
Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought
Arendt understands “politics” as public debate by a community about meaningful aspects of their shared life together. She witnessed the collapse of politics, in this sense, under Nazi totalitarianism.
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11, 2018
A Sound Ecological Policy Cannot Be Achieved Within a Capitalist Framework
Christian Stache interviews Victor Wallis about resistance in the German Hambach Forest, class politics, technology, progress and an ecological-economic conversion.
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10, 2018
One Year Later: Reflections on #MeToo
Social movements, like revolutions, tend to follow a similar cycle in the process of rewiring certain beliefs and norms of behavior. This cycle goes as follows: right-to-centre, centre-to-left, left-to-far left, back to centre, back to right.
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10, 2018
Much Is Lost
By: Hendrik van der Breggen At the beginning of the film Lord of the Rings, as forces of darkness gather
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09, 2018
Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies
Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra and Nathan Nobis from 1000-Word Philosophy examine the difficult issue of how to deal with the objectionable
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09, 2018
Wholesale Crimes
by Victor Wallis In their 1979 book The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and the late Edward
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08, 2018
Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
Globalization and capitalist growth are powered by abundant fossil fuels. As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase.
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08, 2018
Catabolic Capitalism: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
In a growth-less economy, the profit motive can have a powerful catabolic impact on society. The word "catabolism" comes from the Greek and is used in biology to refer to the condition whereby a living thing feeds on itself. Catabolic capitalism is a self-cannibalizing economic system.
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08, 2018
Licensing Parents
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy examines the potential worth in licensing parents. Most people think it’s obvious that we have