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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 […]
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Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In
“Apple Blossom – Blue Sky” by amandabhslater A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning, ‘adding to the sum-total of human knowledge’; lay that burden down, that baggage, that impediment. Take nothing for your journey; travel light. — Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body, 1966 These are […]
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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 […]
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Making Choices
The purpose of this article is to explore the making of choices, a subject that is not nearly as simple or commonplace as it may seem. Choice and Power, You, My Liberty Quotient and the Corpocracy’s Power Elite Choice and Power. To state the obvious, more powerful people can make and have implemented monumental choices […]
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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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