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How come nihilism is so popular today?
I've been trying to attack this question (or more precisely, come up with an answer to that fact) for some time now, but after a while of research I'm suddenly not so sure of the reason the situation is as it is.
I used to think that nihilism today…
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Can philosophy overcome "the two cultures" divide?
Snow noted a growing divide between "the two cultures" in Western society, scientists and "literary intellectuals", who became increasingly self-absorbed and incomprehensible to each other. One of philosophy's traditional roles was providing a…
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Should we save endangered languages?
There are over six thousand living languages in the world, of which more than one thousand are defined as "endangered" - they are at serious risk of becoming extinct, with no living speakers. Rather more surprising, it is estimated that more than…
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Do all religions summarise into the same principle?
I have read, a highly revered mystic and ascetic of Hinduism -- Lord Ramakrishna, the Guru of Swami Vivekananda, had a worldview that every religion is true and every religion eventually leads to God. They differ in practices and methods, but they…
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How was the rationale for Nazism built up in the academia (especially the philosophy departments)?
I am deeply suspicious about writing off the Nazis as mere haters/fascists. It seems that a very plausible rationale was set rolling, within the academia, right from the middle of the 19th century, that ultimately somewhat legitimized the political…
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Have any philosophers applied the concept of "underdetermination" to non-scientific contexts?
Most resources I've found on underdetermination approach the subject within the context of science. That's definitely a fascinating area of study, but I'd like to explore ways of applying underdetermination more broadly. I'm interested in the notion…
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What is a good read on the topics of ethics in the time of globalization?
I would like to mature my thinking regarding ethics in a pluri-cultural world.
Which are interesting reads addressing questions such as:
Should we do commerce exchange with cultures that do not respect women rights ?
Under which terms can cultural…
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What would Adorno and Horkheimer say about modern pornography?
In the "Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception", Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer write that pop culture and mass media are tools of deception, used to manipulate the masses into passivity. Pop culture deceives people, or as Adorno said…
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What is the philosophical value of cultural diversity?
A personal question:
As an Arab-American, I try to maintain my children's ties to Arab culture and the Arabic language, going out of my way to make sure that they speak Arabic fluently, and sending them to Arabic class and attending various…
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If there is progress in philosophy, Why is there no philosophers or thinkers as important today as in the past?
Why don't we have thinkers in the present time (or recent times) that have the same caliber as Albert Einstein, Archimedes, Socrates, Shakespeare, Freud, Aristotle, Plato, Darwin, Popper and all the other great minds over the past few thousand…
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How can we define "sanity" across cultures?
I have witness the following scene in my childhood :
A group of tribe people abducted a newborn baby from a village close to the forest they lived in. The purpose of the abduction was to sacrifice the baby to the tribal goddess by beheading him.…
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what does "universal experience of a transcendental subject" mean?
I've been reading Bourdieu, P. (1986). The force of law: Toward a sociology of the juridical field. Hastings LJ, 38, 805. and encountered the concept on page 819.
The tendency to conceive of the shared vision of a specific historical
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Does Kant have a Fourth Critique?
Those familiar with the architectonic nature of Immanuel Kant's philosophy argue about the difference between the three critiques (Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Practical Reason; and the Critique of Judgment) and his popular writings and…
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Is there an African philosophy?
P. 0. Bodunrin put this question in his essay, 'The Question of African Philosophy', Philosophy 56 (1981), 161. Setting aside primitive times, I am asking if there is anything specific that can be called modern African philosophy.
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Does Edward Said offer a solution to Orientalism and could a possible solution relate to Charles Taylors term "Politics of Recognition?
I've recently read Edward Said's book Orientalism but throughout reading, I didn't really find an explicit solution to Orientalism. Though the thing I could see take form as a solution would be his cultural relativism; that culture should be…
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