Questions tagged [society]
Society in general refers to a group of people who have distinctive cultural relations and institutions sharing the same territory. These organised groups of people associate for some specific purpose or on account of some common interest. Usually, they provide protection, security, continuity and a national identity for its members.
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's? [closed]
Why think that everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's, and is it the case? I think the question isn't a trivial "no reason to think it".
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Is there a consensus that cultural, erotic, social capital exists and can be bought with each other and economic capital?
Is there a consensus that cultural, erotic, social capital exists and can be bought with each other and economic capital?
This was the basis of the great British class survey, and
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What is the name of sociological phenomena where selfish behavior of each individual leads to losses for all of them?
I am trying to identify a specific sociological phenomena which seems pretty obvious to me that it is well known and studied but after quite of googling, its name remains elusive - I'm just not ...
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Is the task of philosophy to reduce fear?
There seems little contemporary work on 'fear'. I certainly couldn't see anything which gave it such important a role. But
Fear, in the Ethics, seems to be government’s most valuable means of ...
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Reference request for philosophical texts on race
Is there even such a thing as the philosophy of race, or race viewed from a philosophical point of view? If so, I would like to read some references on the philosophy of race. I would be very ...
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Is it unbiased to value social freedom more than scientific results
Is it unbiased or impersonal if we don't want to change our society towards what is right based on research into the biological grounding of psychology?
Say that scientists found that (a) the concept ...
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Did any philosophers defend Slave Morality?
I think slave morality creates a peaceful society and Master morality would be negative for most people. To restrain ambition and desire is one of the reasons mankind have survived so long.
But slave ...
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Two ways of thinking about social reality (progressive/fluid vs conservative/structure)
Regarding topics on biological sex, gender, sexual orientation and relationships it seems there are broadly 2 ways of thinking about social reality (roughly corresponding to more progressive and more ...
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To what extent can philosophical discipline permeate into normal life, e.g. the abortion debate?
As just one example of public debate where emotions run high: The abortion debate in the USA seems to be hopelessly polarised.
My rational approach would include:
Consider the safety health of the ...
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Confucianism and other cultures/peoples
Are there considerations and reflections about other cultures and peoples (than Confucianism and confucianist societies) in Confucianism?
For instance concerning the kind of relationship a ...
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Philosophers answering "what happens to a society that does not believe in free wıll?"
The Scientific American article, What Happens to a Society That Does Not Believe in Free Wıll?, looks to answer the question from a research perspective and The clockwork universe: is free will an ...
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What do Marx and Marxists say about the role of bureaucracy in socialism?
By bureaucracy, I mean that important state decisions are made by officials elected at best by their own party. Does Marx approve of this? Do any Marxists not approve of it?
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What is the importance of intellectuals in shaping the society and the world? [closed]
What is the importance of intellectuals and intellectual thought in influencing the worldviews and beliefs of people, in shaping society and the world?
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Can I agree to what I do not allow the sovereign?
Suppose we enter a social contract to bring about some power
Social contract arguments typically are that individuals have
consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their
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What are the arguments against modern technology, medicine and society? [closed]
In today's society, manual tasks have become automated. Digital communication devices have connected people across the globe. Medications and surgeries have lessened symptoms of illnesses, delayed ...
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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 it morally wrong to deny food to the mother in this specific case?
A women has two sons, A and B. The son A has denied to keep her, take care of hers and give her food. The woman strongly loves Son A but not Son B. So, she decides to stay at Son A for most of the ...
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Is it ethical to impose ethical values on others? [closed]
The question is motivated by reading the discussions on veganism:
Is 'veganism' a settled issue in Philosophy and Ethics?
Why is it okay to eat meat but not to be cruel to animals?
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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 ...
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Is gender sex-based, socially constructed or both? [closed]
Does the mere existence of intersex people (and people with 1 XX chromosomes, for example XXY) destroy the claim that gender is based on biological sex?
Can this be considered a valid exception, and ...
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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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Are 'fearless' people a threat to society?
In childhood we are all told legends and myths about different heroes. Most of the time they are portrayed as fearless characters who doesn’t fear anything and sacrifice themselves for their people ...
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impact of different Christian theologies on the psyche [closed]
I am afraid I do not have the expertise to form this question correctly, but I will give it a try: I want to understand how each of the different Christian theologies that exist (Evangelical ...
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If Socrates time travelled to the 21st century, would he still face the same fate?
I believe that the Athenian community and authority did not appreciate his philosophy and political view.
Sometimes, I tell himself that they just didn't know his worth as he was way ahead of his time....
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Is ideological dogma an example of exogenous instinct?
By my current understanding: Individual instinct is instantiated primarily by lower brain systems, which provide motivations of attraction and repulsion toward particular internal and external objects ...
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Does anyone talk about loneliness not as a failure of love
Does anyone (ideally philosophy, not self help) talk about loneliness not as a failure of love for or by others, even yourself, nor as a virtue - but as something which can be won nevertheless - but ...
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Is it ethical to convince someone to get vaccinated?
I'm currently writing about the ethics of vaccinations, and I have two long-standing concerns about the matter. "Is refusing vaccination a morally justifiable position?" will be my question. ...
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Is there a quantitative measure for a philosopher's skill?
Obviously, the property you should be interested in here is fame.
Below a ranking of the philosophers included in Leiter's list, sorted
by fame (measured in dBHa, the international logarithmic unit of ...
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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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Which Philosophers talk about the Future. the technologies beyond AI and John Searle?
I like philosophy since long time ago I know a little about Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Leibniz. I like his work but there is a topic that I am really ...
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What if heroin was served instead of alcohol? [closed]
If instead of alcohol heroin would have been part of the alcoholic beverages that are sold and served everywhere. And alcohol was extracted from plants like heroin is now.
Would the attitude to heroin ...
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Can we say that human beings are behaving more and more like machines?
In all societies people complied to some behavioral expectation. In the middle age for instance people felt that they were assigned by God their position in society, and they would comply to the ...
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Non-traditional (individuals = graph edges) views on societies
In his book Large graphs and graph limits, mathematician and Abel prize winner László Lovász says on page 4:
We can say that the whole universe is a single (really huge, possibly
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How is Society shaped?
I'm interested in what shapes society?
Yes, individuals shape society and society shapes the individual, but I want more detailed analysis.
My humble take is: Culture is the most important thing that ...
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Is it ethically OK to read letters of a dead person, that were not addressed to you?
I hope, this stackexchange site, is the right one for this topic, because I have more of a morality/ethics question than plain philosophy.
I've been researching my family history for quite some time ...
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Why have we used money when it creates so much inequality in our lives? [closed]
I'm not sure if this question fits on this site, but I had this question the other day.
Why have we used money when it creates so much inequality in our lives? Money is nothing more than a concept but ...
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Would Ayn Rand's Objectivism work in a society?
For some background, I'm not a serious academic or philosopher, but I have been studying Ayn Rand, her novels, and her philosophy of Objectivism in my English Literature class.
A large part of ...
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Is corruption always morally wrong?
The question is whether corruption is always morally/ethically wrong.
To set up the premise, let me start with some examples. In third world countries (I'm from one myself, so I can speak from ...
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Is there a philosophical model of sensations-emotions-thoughts?
Ten years ago, I read Vankatesh Rao's blog post The Gervais Principle. It blew my mind, as it did the minds of many other people. It quickly became Rao's most popular blog post entry, prompting a ...
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Why can community benefit if its individuals be free to act selfishly?
I never studied philosophy. Can someone kindly explain like I'm 5 the emboldened sentences below? What does "the defendant may benefit from considerations such as the effect on the community if ...
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What's the "truth context" of societal philosophies? Can one infer whether some belief/philosophy is true? How?
What's the "truth context" of societal philosophies?
Such as political philosophies (and ideas of ideal societies etc.) put forward by:
Hobbes
Locke
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And "practiced" by people....
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Is it difficult to know "general opinion"?
Is it difficult to know "general opinion"?
Or can it be measured well somehow?
I have had this problem of thinking that, when I get another person agree with me that I "possibly" hit a general ...
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How is it possible that so many people get together, get married, have kids and *then* divorce and break up? [closed]
I have always been fundamentally baffled about this fact, as a male currently in his mid-30s who never managed to attract any female.
If this had happened, and we had got so far as to get married, ...
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When describing someone are virtues and character the same?
Are virtues and character the same thing?
If not how would they differ
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What is the idea that a moral system is ethical if it can function when everyone in a community adheres to it?
What is the ethical paradigm from the title called?
To restate the concept in the negative, a moral system would be considered unethical if, when universally adhered to by everyone in a community, ...
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Maximizing freedom in a society
A friend and I were trying to come up with the most basic rule that, if followed, would lead to a functional (and preferably good) society.
He said: "People should be free to do whatever they want, ...
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From knowledge based society to society based knowledge?
I would like to know what do these two terms (society based knowledge and knowledge based society) mean and what is the difference between them? And also what does it mean that we are moving from KBS ...
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What exactly is the relation betweeen artworks and communism, for Adorno?
What exactly is the relation betweeen artworks and communism, for Adorno?
I have read the beginning of Negative Dialectics, and some of Aesthetic Theory, as well as a analysis of the latter, and ...
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Can loneliness make you more creative? [closed]
Can loneliness, living in solitude, or living alone make a person more creative?
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Might Marx's argument in Das Kapital be less about justice and exploitation than it is about disenfranchisment?
Might Marx's argument in Das Kapital be less about justice and exploitation than it is about disenfranchisment? I specifically mean his analysis of work, the falling rate of profit, and movement of '...
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