Sennet would appear to be an economic theorist and coming from Yale he is most likely right wing. I have very little trust in economists as they take numbers...
I have just finished reading Richard Sennett's "The Rise of the New Capitalism" which was chosen for our local philosophy reading group. I thoroughly recommend...
1947: Jimmy Doyle died of brain injuries 17 hours after being knocked out by Sugar Ray Robinson in a world welterweight title fight. Fifteen months earlier,...
Just as some here casually use the word `individual', so with `philosophy'. Brevik acted on bigoted zealotry rather than informed, rigorously examined idea. He...
Herman , I do not remember calling for some violent death to Timothy Leary. If I did, so be it, I probably had a reason. If you want to research it ,waste...
The rich republicans have heard the deadly word heard, the sound of the crack of doom. The word is defense and it is like a turd in their pockets. The war...
People back from the oil wars say the enemy is small and badly wounded. The droids are winning. Big ,super accurate missles can reach even the most remote...
The norse killer says he listened to conservatives in america. What happens in a minority revolution. I fear that is what we are experiencing. Lone wolves,...
As you can see I'm new to this board. Perhaps I don't understand the dynamics of it exactly therefore would someone be so kind and explain them to me as I do...
Hi Herman, You write: "So, I differentiate between freedom and free will. I acknowledge freedom and I reject free will. As I said above, freedom alludes to the...
Hi Mary, ... Yes, that's right. The individual doesn't exist. The individual is an abstraction; an abstraction from everything that exists. No thing exists ...
Following the toppling of the President in Tunisia and the President in Egypt earlier this year, I am now pleased to report that the President of the United...
Bill, Although slightly offended that you suffer no softies here, I nonetheless find your assessment that an existentialist requires courage quite on the mark....
I agree that free will iS a metaphysical concept of little worth. Freedom is measured in the threats you recieve from others. Being a loner seems to accompany...
I have great respect for the French existentalists as they looked at a modern world of personal initive and risk. The German existentialists had the terrible...
That is what Obama says about republicans. That ideology comes from religion which is the enemy of existentialism. Yes, enemy, not contemporary view but...
Mary, You quote the following passage from Zizek: "Even in much of today's progressive politics, the danger is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to...
Two democratic senators say the republicans are trying to sabotage the US recovery in order to embarass and defeat Obama. I have suspected this for months and...
Hi all, Of course cruising the high seas on a ship is only possible for the likes of us because there are seas of wafer-thin Filipino, Thai and Indonesian...
I find pyrrhic victory unacceptable. Dropping out as a tactical retreat can be a very good method. Refusing to fill out your census form and getting a big...
Eric cantor walked out of the debt ceiling talks. He asserts there will be no tax hikes for the wealthy coming out of the republican house. There will also be...
Now let us speak of individual need. That is of Charles Dickens and other pragmatists. The supposidly reliable theories of economics are less than fifty per...
The Pentagon Papers are out, public and supposidly unredacted. They deal with the governments prosecution of the Viet Nam War. There are thousands of pages...
I am talking about the manipulation of terms. If you are a modernist I think you inherit a responsibility to language. Deconstruction ,at it`s base, is letter...
Hi Mary and all, ... I think it is a giant step in the denouement of the philosophese that passes as ethical discourse to see the role that aversion plays in...
Hi Jim, ... C'mon, Jim. We can do better than this. After all, we are philosophers, not? I am glad that you have ditched the notion of things-in-themselves,...
Jim and Herman, Since phenomenology and ethics are relevant to existentialism, I wouldn't mind continuing this thread. If I understand Zizek, his criticism of...
I watched a documentary about the garbage men of Cairo, it was revealing, shocking, punishing. This was a view from the lower class, from the untouchables and...
It is more easy to be static,conservative. You react little to the present, you have god on your side and he reacts at god speed. Now Eric Margolis estimates...
