Questions tagged [politics]
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I'm being drafted to the military but I have the option to refuse (legally), would it be immoral for me to serve?
I’m set to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces but I have the option to exempt from the military if I wish to. So I’m in a big moral dilemma on whether I should serve or not, I’m currently leaning towards not serving being the morally right…
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Is it inappropriate for politicians to make rules governing scientific research?
Robinson Meyer, in a recent article in The Atlantic, quotes law professor Wendy Wagner as follows:
People who are not scientists are telling us how scientific synthesis and analysis should be done... Politics has gone to a place that should be off…
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Why is Nietzsche more frequently associated with Nazis than Hegel is?
Most introductory texts or lectures of Nietzsche mention the connection between his thought and Nazi ideology (supposedly due to his sister's promoting his thought as being pro-Nazi). But Nazis don't get mentioned at all in similar texts regrading…
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What are reasonable basic obligations of citizens in democratic societies?
Theorists (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel) have often discussed the state's obligations to its citizens, but nowadays it seems we need a definitive-but-succinctly articulated account of citizens' obligations to sustaining healthy, functioning…
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Does a counterargument exist to the claim "Too much diversity is a problem/cannot be controlled"?
Since I live in America i'll make an example using that. People nowadays (2023 as I write this) say that our government will get increasingly more diverse, which will lead to more issues and points-of-views to consider when trying to come up with a…
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Is there something "morally weird" about social media sites with downvote functions?
I was thinking of the democracy-theoretic reason for the function here or on Reddit (the main examples I can think of at the moment), but then I remembered:
When we vote for political officers, we tally upvotes only; it's not like the US president,…
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Is fascism intrinsically violent?
Has every group or nation that is generally considered to be fascist, descended from the nationalist ideology of Mussolini (I don't mean 'fascism' in the sense of just any right wing demagogy), espoused an especially violent politics and political…
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What are the relations between Neoliberalism and Postmodernism?
The following passage surprised me, not only because it has neoliberals in place of postmodernists, but also because it describes everything I see as a consequence of so-called "Postmodernism" (or whatever name you give it: post-structuralism,…
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Can one find in the writings of Ayn Rand a definitive list of rights?
Is there to be found anywhere in the writings, lectures or interviews of Ayn Rand a precisely-formulated list of rights, with or without justifications or explanations? In other words, did she ever set forth an explicit list or suite of individual /…
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Deontological analysis of "voting your conscience"
What factors play into a deontological analysis of voting your conscience? i.e. voting for a candidate who highly aligns with your positions, but doesn't have a chance of winning, vs. a less ideal, but more electable one, given that there is an…
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Were Derrida, Lacan, Freud involved in politics?
Were philosophers like Derrida, Lacan, Freud involved in any kind of political party, political movement or had any political ideas? or did they just had theories in fields like psychoanalysis.
Edit: Did any of them wanted to change society and make…
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What topics of philosophy should I study to understand the dialectics of societies?
I am new to this site, it will be really helpful if you can help me with tags.
I live in an area which is a socially, morally and intellectually very backward part of the world, although materially it is average.
I am interested in Philosophy and…
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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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In what way is Heidegger's philosophy right wing?
I know that Heidegger was an NSDAP member but I am only somewhat familiar with his work, and I'm asking this question so that I don't have to scan everything he's written to find out.
For an example, I have read some Nietzche and it is easy to…
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Who still defends the concept of "end of history"?
Some years ago, there have been a dispute between two totally different philosophies:
1) The concept of "End of history", proposed by Francis Fukuyama, meaning that western liberal democracies are the cream of human civilizations, thus nothing else…
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