Questions tagged [political-philosophy]
Describing questions about the philosophy of politics and society which investigate concerns like liberty, justice and equality.
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which book is the most rigorous and comprehensive book of Arendt's pracitcal philosophy?
I read a book of Arendt, "Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy" because of the recommendation of a professor.
I'm interested in her theoretical structure of practical philosophy.
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(philosophy of law) how broadly can statutes be interpreted by courts? [closed]
In constitutions and legal systems like that of America , Australia and India (and other states with separation of powers), if a statute has more than one possible interpretation, then can and should ...
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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-...
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Is there a version of virtuous humor that survives?
The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack
of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free
society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of
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Is the (truth of) justification of political beliefs necessary given Pyrrhonism?
To explain real quick. Pyrrhonism is some sort of philosophical practice which does reject (or suspend judgment on) epistemic criteria. It is debatable if they can hold beliefs, but even if the could ...
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The well-being of a minority depends on the ill-being of a majority?
Suppose a society with three classes of people. A are the very well-off, B are well-off, C are worst-off. The distribution of this classes is shown in the following triangle.
As you see, there is no ...
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What is or would be a good name for the thought current of seeking increased interconnection between beings?
This current is starting to be crucially important to pinpoint with the rise of technologies such as Neuralink, the latter explicitly adhering to this philosophy. I like the term noospherism but I ...
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Voting and evidential expected utility
Say there is a large election between two candidates 𝐴 and 𝐵. A winning would have a utility value of 100, B winning would have utility value 0. Going out and voting would add a (sub)value of -1 ...
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Have any contemporary political philosophers argued for autocracy?
Have any contemporary political philosophers argued for autocracy? I know that very few go near fascism anymore (I read this in an encyclopaedia twenty years ago: history completely disproved it all).
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Is the city obliged to fulfill its promises after the political regime change occurs, according to Aristotle?
"And if this is true it is evident that the sameness of the state consists chiefly in the sameness of the constitution, and it may be called or not called by the same name, whether the ...
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What is the scope of Utilitarianism?
Utilitarianism can be used to explain all kinds of environmental protection measures quite well. For example, it can be used to justify why individual factories must clean their wastewater and not ...
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Is there a name/reference for this concept of "power dilution"?
A few phenomena that have a common thread running through them are:
A board of directors of a corporation that wishes to dilute the voting power of the existing shareholders can issue new stock. As ...
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Is Hobbes describing a 0th or 1st Law of Nature here?
In Hobbes' Leviathan, specifically section The Fundamental Law Of Nature contained in Chapter XIV, Hobbes says:
"And consequently it is a precept, or generall rule of Reason, “That every man, ...
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Is mathematics politically and culturally neutral?
Lately, there have been many people who say that mathematics itself is racist, that it is simply a creation of dead white Greek men. As a mathematician, I strongly disagree, and believe that ...
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My CO2 emissions in the light of Russia burning thousands of tons of it a day
According to the news, Russia is burning off, or "flaring," about 4.34 million cubic meters of gas a day because it does not sell it to Europe. That's apparently an equivalent of 9,000 ...
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Can someone please help me understand this quote from the Manifesto?
" The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages , which Reactionists so much admire , found its fitting complement in the most slothful ...
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Can, or should, one separate improvement of society from improvement of individual ethic?
Last night I was reminiscing upon Plato's Republic as an attempt for constructing as best a city as possible, and the latter The Laws which attempted to implement such.
Initially I was thinking of ...
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Enantiodromia--How Do Symbols Undergo an Inversion of Meaning?
I am looking for writings in philosophy, semiotics, or psychology that deal with the shifts and ultimately the inversion of practical meaning in symbols. This would be something like Orwell's concept ...
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Is it wrong to fly on holiday?
I have the impression that more and more colleagues disapprove of me flying for holidays. That made me ponder, but I'm not convinced that I'm making a moral mistake. I argue that my actions cannot be ...
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What do philosophers call the aspirational ideal of deliberative decision-making / governance?
I'm interested in the oldest and/or most notable articulation of what a potential ideal decision-making / governance approach would aspire to.
More concretely, consider an idealized decision-making ...
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A Foucalt-ian analysis of Gandhi's Satyagraha?
So I've recently tried delving into Foucault's idea of resistance and power:
where there is power, there is resistance, and yet, or rather
consequently, this resistance is never in a position of ...
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Paradox of Plurality as a better idea
If X is in a zone where there is a rule that while a person has right to have/follow any opinion/view point but is REQUIRED (MANDATORY) to respect (and accept) plurality of opinions as a condition to ...
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Who originally made a coherent argument that government is inevitable because in "anarchy" a government would come about anyway?
There is a generally known argument, which is that if there is no central authority that maintains a preponderance of violence, then there would be a kind of power vacuum, and some group would fill ...
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Is evil neccessary to society?
Despite attempts to improve the world around us, evil continues to exist. What may come off as incredulous to someone wants to do no harm, may be reasonable to the people doing immoral actions.
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Neo-liberalism, language and freedom?
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Byung Chulhan in his book psychopolitics defines freedom in two ways:
a. He defines it as an interlude which the subject feels when passing between lifestyles or ideologies. This is a ...
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Are people naturally cooperative or selfish?
Machiavelli's The Prince has a rather low view of humanity. He paints humans as fickle, and ready to turn in desperate moments. This may be attributed to the fact that he was in exile and lived in a ...
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Ideas of a truth that sustains?
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Given the modern day age of misinformation, surely someone has pondered and tested their ideas of a truth that sustains (a truth that sustains refers to the ideas that sustain the confidence ...
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Is the term "freedom" sometimes used by those who govern a nation into a poor state of affairs for the people?
Cuba is a socialist regime with no "freedom" accordingly to many people. In Cuba there is a very low crime rate, most of the country is safe.
El Salvador is a capitalist country with very ...
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In political philosophy, what is the label for those who work to preserve a negative peace been called? [closed]
According to peace studies which examines violence through a multi-disciplinary lens and relies heavily on political philosophy, there is a recognition of the status quo. The condition absent of ...
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Fallacy of division in an old book
I have identified a fallacy of division in an old book written in Spanish and I would like you to confirm if it is indeed a logical fallacy. The underlined part of the image contains the argument that ...
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Is there a modern country (21st century) that would be considered totalitarian under Arendt's account? If not, does that make her theory flawed? [closed]
I was wondering if there is any modern-day country that can be considered totalitarian according to Hannah Arendt (where the totalitarian regime is defined by its endless motion, total domination over ...
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How is the 'central fiction' of Zionism to be understood politically?
Deleuze in his essay, The Grandeur of Arafat, writes:
Zionism, then the state of Israel, will demand that the Palestinians recognise its right. But the State of Israel will never speak of ...
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What does this mean about critical theory?
In the introduction of her recent book "Between Gaia and Ground", Elizabeth Povinelli says:
This book examines four axioms of existence that have emerged in
recent years across a ...
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Does a philosophy scholar in the modern world need to study ancient philosophy?
I am a philosophy enthusiast and I study philosophy on my own. I wanted to know whether a philosophy scholar in the modern world needs to study the ancient philosophical ideas, such as those by ...
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What is the doctrine of using violence to preserve peace called?
What is the correct way to describe the philosophy on the subject of 'war to make peace' or 'justification of short-term violence on the road to long-term peace'. Si vis pacem, para bellum is another ...
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Who is Barclay, the supporter of monarchy, mentioned in John Locke's treatise of government?
In John Locke's two treatises of government he mentions "This is so evident, that Barclay himself, that great assertor of the power and sacredness of kings, is forced to confess" (chapter 19,...
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Is Baudrillard's work left-wing or right-wing?
What hints can we draw from his philosophy to situate his politics ? For example the French philosopher Deleuze is obviously an anticatapitalist as understood from his ideas in Anti-oedipus.
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What is the philosophical idea concerning knowledge behind the project of Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a human project done collectively in a global scale. What is the philosophy or epistemology underlying this project? Has the idea been to establish sort of a "democratic" source ...
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Papers on whether or not college is a basic human right
It seems to be a fairly popular mantra in many contemporary left-of-center political circles that a college education is a basic human right. What does academia have to say about this? Are there any ...
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Can liberalism be proven logically [closed]
Can modern, Democrat Liberal ideology be proven logically, ie, does it extend rationally from logical axioms, or does it have other means of axiomatization.
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Has the phenomenon of equating two different ideas been studied?
While reading Henry Kissinger's book, Diplomacy, I came across several examples of thinkers conveniently, but constructively (meaning with good intentions), equating one concept with another. The ...
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Do some philosophies hold there are limits to free speech?
Imagine many philosophers believe that the right to freedom of speech of everyone in the world should be ensured without exception.
Now think about a situation where a huge number of citizens in a ...
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Would Hannah Arendt classify raking leaves each autumn as labour or work?
Hannah Arendt was a Holocaust survivor and philosopher. In her work, The Human Condition, she takes an interest in the understanding of human activities. From WP:
The Human Condition,1 first ...
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Arguments against forcing insurance of any kind by a state
Some states force their residents to pay for a broad insurance service often named "national insurance" or "social security"; it doesn't even matter if the subject has private ...
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Rousseau Experts, Assemble! (to identify a quote)
I know this is a long shot, but I am looking for a quote from Rousseau. I heard it a long time ago and have looked for it many times, but I have not been able to find it.
In the quote (only about 1-to-...
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Who acts in Arendt's Human Condition?
In Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, she categorises the active life as Labor, Work and Action where labor is performed by animal laborans and work by homo faber. To my knowledge, Arendt does not ...
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Is there any agreement about how many people are required to create a state?
What is the minimal number of beings (humans on earth or X on Y for that matter) to actually run anything we would call a "state"?
Perhaps a better question would be about how many people ...
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Is there any agreement on what makes a state "state"?
Is there any agreement on what makes a state "state"?
Is it de facto tax collection (especially, customs)?
Is it the number of general-residents ("permanent-residents") in a given ...
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Paradox of resolving discrimination
I live in India, here at birth we are assigned something called 'caste' based on our genealogy. For a long time in India, it was often that certain castes had access to much more resources than other ...
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Can an Anarchist be a mathematician? [closed]
Can an Anarchist (someone who rejects any physical sentient being's authority) be a mathematician?
Isn't formal axioms and practical axioms ("how many digits should come after a decimal point&...
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