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What is the Common Good According to Hobbes?
Two key arguments of Hobbes' in his Leviathan seem to be the ideas of "state of nature" and "social contract."
If I am correct in my interpretation, it seems that once a ...
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When should a state have a right to prohibit abortion?
I am asking about the the relation of law to morality. Specifically my question centres of the intersection of law and morality on the question of abortion.
My personal position on the subject of ...
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What was the Bakunin/Marx argument and split about?
In 1868, Bakunin joined the International Workingmen's Association,
leading the anarchist faction to rapidly grow in influence. The 1872
Hague Congress was dominated by a struggle between Bakunin and ...
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If I know something, should I feel as though I have absolute certainty as to that thing?
I've been trying to wrap my head around the justified true belief analysis of knowledge along with the fallibly justified, true belief analysis of knowledge; and there is something that keeps ...
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Is anything known about the physical, neural, mental, and/or logical characteristics or conditions of “wanting”?
I do not mean the word “wanting” itself, since a word can refer to many things, or a spectrum of qualities that may or may not be seen a connected thing or not.
If we try to identify a more clear ...
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Difference between mental states and mental events?
What is the main difference between mental states and mental events in philosophy of mind? I heard from a lecturer that mental events are those entities which occur instantly or in short period of ...
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Should a state decide for the good of the population against their will? [closed]
Here is a hypothetical situation.
There is a project only the state can handle. This project, if it is made, will have a positive impact for everyone. If it is not made, the current situation will not ...
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How and who rebuilds the state after a revolution?
How and who rebuilds the state after a revolution?
I frequent "revolutionary" discussion, and am surprised (almost afraid) by how little this comes up. They all want to smash the existing ...
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How have successful governments legislated morality?
In what ways has law fostered a culture of clear morality? Are there objective measurements to state what would be beneficial to the people which laws are meant for? I'm very interested in ways that ...
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What constitutes the "state" of a tree?
If a tree were to be cut down and turned into a couple of wooden logs, informally one can say referring to the logs that the logs are the current state of the tree. But how true is this ? Shouldn't ...
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What does one actually mean by the "state" of an object?
In the context of physics where we usually have phrases like the "state of a system" or the "state of a particle" what exactly do we mean by the word "state" ? To begin, ...
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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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Is a nation state morally obliged at all times to put its own citizens' interests before every other person's?
Is a nation state morally obliged at all times to put its own citizens' interests before every other person's?
it may sound odd to ask about obligation as it applies to a state, as they themselves ...
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Could a State be considered as a huge famlly?
The members of a State are alledgedly supposed to form a national community, to have a shared identity. The ancient generations of a nation are referred to as the " fathers". A patriot is ...
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Education of civil servants
I was wondering what would happen, if we required the people who serve in top positions in a democracy (president...) to go through a dedicated school, that would be free for anyone who wants to ...
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Ethical Considerations in Relation to Allowing Children with Gender Dysphoria to Begin HRT Before the Age of 18 [closed]
In recent current events, there have been several bills in the United States and in Canada that propose that the government should be able to remove children with gender dysphoria from households ...
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If we value free agency, how can punishment - the state's deprivation of a person's free agency - be justified ?
Starting with the supposition that we want to allow humans free agency, insofar as it does not infringe upon the free agency of others, what punishments can a state impose that do not make it guilty ...
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Couple of questions on Bernard Bolzano's philosophy of state
I read a summary of Bolzano's political views and his philosophy of the "best" state, and I have 3 questions -
A) was Bolzano heavily influenced by the USA? His line of thought for some of his ideas ...
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What alternatives are there to illegalization?
The obvious problem of illegalization is that it can never be enforced perfectly. Moreover, it addresses only the symptoms and not the reasons underlying a certain behavior. What alternatives are ...
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Could Science and Philosophy be focused too much on physical states and not enough on dynamic processes? [closed]
Many times I've read about machines or processes being described as a collection of only physical states and not as a set of 'interacting' processes. A physical STATE is not a process which might have ...
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Concepts of state and transition as used by Kierkegaard
While reading Søren Kierkegaard's "The Concept of Anxiety", I asked myself how much of the temporal interpretation of dialectic and the interaction between state and transition (leap) are original to ...
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How much can investigating three nested systems help interpreting probabilistic theories?
Many attempts to interpret quantum mechanics do so by looking at three nested systems. The largest system is essentially the universe or the environment. The smallest system is the one being observed ...
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Do people have the right to split off part of a sovereign state?
On one hand we have sovereign nation states with stable, recognised borders. On the other hand there can be groups of people inside them that want to split off to become independent, or join a ...
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The ultimate definition of being awake? [closed]
What is the ultimate definition of being awake?
These are my considerations:
At night, when I sleep, I can't say I am a sleep. But when I think about it the next morning, I would say I was asleep. ...
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What does Marxism envision as the role of the state in the economy?
According to Marx, in capitalism, what role does the state play? Is it independent of the economy? Also, does the exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, have anything to do with the state ...
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How can a nation be legitimized in declaring sovereignty over newborns?
Suppose a child is born. In the entire world, that person will inherit his parent's nationality, hence, becoming citizen of a certain country. (Or two countries, in specific cases.)
That means that ...
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