What are constructs? We live in a society with culture. The way we interact with each other is based on certain conventions, consensus, or norms, scripts and ideology/discourse. To say something is constructed, is to say it is forged – which has a double meaning according to John Caputo’s reading of post-structuralists such as Jacques […]
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I just presented some figures for the spending in the UK to one of our fellow Brexiteers, who was concerned about health tourism and yet, will not be voting for Corbyn. hmmmm Health tourism costs around £200 million/y but the NHS costs £116 billion/y or so, which isn’t a dent really when compared to the […]
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Are religious or spiritual experiences real? How can something be real if there is only one person experiencing it? If we look at this question in western scientific terms, it is only a stimulation and does not reflect reality at all, but if we look towards the east or to a shaman for example, they […]
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Philosophical language is not like our everyday ordinary language – the reason for this is because some words may carry multiple meanings that make discussion confusing, we might think a word we use has a given meaning, but when we use it in philosophy, it just doesn’t work very well. Getting over the ‘no common […]
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How do we know what is in reality, or beyond that? Can we know simply via the senses and experience, or do we have prior knowledge of such things which can be accessed through reason, or, is it impossible to be certain about anything in reality, never mind beyond it?
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I thought I would attempt to make some simpler threads for members who have little, or no experience in philosophy. Beginners and more experienced users may participate, more experienced users could (ideally) guide and direct beginners towards understanding the questions that arise as we go along, but please, keep it short and simple. The best […]
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I am going to read this book, as it will follow from Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Trouble’ quite nicely. It is a critique of post-humanism, which aside from talk of cyborgs and AI, I am more interested in the sense of the term as being about post-humanist views within knowledge. Rosi Braidotti is a post-structural feminist […]
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Over the past few years, especially since 2012 after the world did not end, we have all seen a massive surge of right wing politics. They range from your garden variety loons who deny the Holocaust or think the Earth is flat, to anti-feminists (not necessarily right wing by the way), but the main influx […]
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Alfredo Bonanno puts forward a truth in regards to the crisis an anarchist faces when attempting to define anarchism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-the-anarchist-tension
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Judith Butlers’ reading of Luce Irigaray says that woman is ‘cancelled’, she is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufheben?wprov=sfsi1 Any thoughts?