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Tag: Epistemology

  • Offensive Realism Disrobed

    Following the publication in 2001 of his book, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, John Mearsheimer’s notion of Offensive Realism (OR) has become widely regarded (in academe and in state policy circles) as a no-nonsense, pragmatic and now preeminent ‘theory’ of how and why it is that the so-called great powers of the world behave […]

  • Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Orientation The mismatch between the complexity of the world and the simplistic manner in which we think about it The social, economic and political world in which we live is extremely complex, but  most of the Yankee population does not have the thinking skills that can make intelligent decisions about this world and what to […]

  • The Rise of the New Culture Commissars

    The annual rites of Oscar are nigh (Sunday, March 10), in case you hadn’t noticed—and given the sharply declining trend of the show’s ratings over the past decade, you probably hadn’t. Once a momentous occasion of national mind-melding of near-Super Bowl proportions, this increasingly tedious exercise in tacky self-aggrandizement and PC hectoring from gazillionaire celebrities […]

  • The 2024 Oscars: The Rise of the New Culture Commissars

    The annual rites of Oscar are nigh (Sunday, March 10), in case you hadn’t noticed—and given the sharply declining trend of the show’s ratings over the past decade, you probably hadn’t. Once a momentous occasion of national mind-melding of near-Super Bowl proportions, this increasingly tedious exercise in tacky self-aggrandizement and PC hectoring from gazillionaire celebrities […]

  • Out on a Limb with Dialectical Materialism

    Out on a Limb with Dialectical Materialism

    Orientation Who cares about philosophy? When most people hear about philosophy, they think it is: Hopelessly abstract The opposite of concreate reality The opposite of application For talking heads who are otherwise inept and clumsy – the wallflowers at a party It has no impact on daily life unless we consciously apply it It is […]

  • “We Deny It!” “Conspiracy Theory!” Versus “The True Cause Scale”

    “JFK, RFK, MLK, Jr.  assassinated by their own government.” “We deny it!” “Conspiracy Theory!” “Power elite of war industry in collusion with the US government (i.e., the “corpocracy”) killing hundreds of millions of people for profit, plunder, and more power.” “We deny it!” “Conspiracy theory!!” “The power elite cause widespread poverty.” “We deny it!” “Conspiracy […]

  • Why Isn’t the Democratic World a World?

    Why Isn’t the Democratic World a World?

    Alain Badiou is undoubtedly among the greatest of living philosophers; one that may fairly be credited with rescuing philosophy from academic irrelevance, and the twin enemies of scientism and historicism. For Badiou, philosophy does not merely interpret the world (as Marx famously asserted in his “Theses on Feuerbach”). For an interpretation of the world, we […]

  • Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don’t Teach Critical Thinking

    Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don’t Teach Critical Thinking

    The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what you’re about to read. Some of it is fact; some of it is opinion masquerading as fact; and the rest is liberal, conservative, or mainstream propaganda. Make sure you know which is which […]

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