Theory of Social Justice Disclaimer: this essay is my opinion. This post is an address and call for the need of Social Justice. There actually may be no need for Social Justice. That is because Social Justice, in itself, as I define it could be a need felt by people of society. It is […]
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Introduction In the 20th Century, Structuralists shared the view that man is defined by his outward language as opposed to his inward powers of the mind. How could ideas exist in the mind without words? How could powers of reasoning operate without sentences? Analytic philosophy claims man has a unique instrument with which to do […]
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I was thinking this section could be renamed to sociology, which would still include feminism, or if it does take off as a topic on the forum we could create a sub-forum for feminism in this section? All members let us know what you think.
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Philosophy as a technology Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines, computers, devices, and factories, which can be operated by individuals without detailed knowledge of the workings of such things. If wisdom is to be applied, it has to be a technology based on […]
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John Rogers Searle (/sɜrl/; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and social philosophy, he began teaching at Berkeley in 1959. His main study is “consciousness”. He has […]
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For the first thread in the religion and spirituality section, I thought I would talk about Kabballah. I always understood the tree of life in Kabballah in terms of Plato’s theory of forms, but not as an epistemology as we undertand it today, it’s describing an ontology. It’s divided into four ‘worlds’ – Atziluth, Briar, […]
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What is panopticism? In modern society, we have to endure lots of international problems like terrorism, fraud and general injustice and crime. Governments are increasingly becoming police states and believe that surveillance is the way in which we can combat these problems. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham once designed a plan for a prison, which was […]
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The phenomena of hypnosis Hypnosis is a peculiar phenomenon that allows a practitioner to have some kind of dialogue with the unconscious realm of the human mind. What is curious however, is how the unconscious that is accessed though hypnosis, is responsive to language. If a hypnotist induces the victim to eat a lemon by […]
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The difference isn’t apparent immediately as abjection is difficult to grasp as a concept, but if we think of abjection in a less negative (as in nither good or bad) sense and take into account how it is a process of individuation (as abjection is negation), we can then compare it psychological projection, which is […]
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Leadership and Activism: Modern vs Historical Racial inequality has been at the front of American social concerns for over a century and a half. […]