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Does the current “ruling ontology” deny any possibility of a social causation of mental illness?
Suppose (without loss of too much generality) that I am anxious. There are two conceptualizations I could consider. First, the one given by the "ruling ontology":
I suffer because I am ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
Kaczynski himself may or may not be a conservative, but "the breakdown of traditional values" is something conservatives keep fear-mongering about, and they keep asserting that this is ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
I cannot really make out a question in the body of OP's post, so I assume all of that is just meant as context of what this question (in the title) is about. I also am not familiar with the ramblings ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
While this is hard to give an objective answer to, I'll give some thoughts.
As far as I can tell, Ted Kaczynski seems to believe that we like to act in our self-interest. Communities arise from mutual ...
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Does the current “ruling ontology” deny any possibility of a social causation of mental illness?
"The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness."
The actual debate is about a politics where problems are essentially systemic vs a politics ...
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Does the current “ruling ontology” deny any possibility of a social causation of mental illness?
Taking alone the three keywords from the heading of your post:
Ontology – social causation – mental illness.
There are different types of mental illness, see ICD-10.
There are diffent social ...
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Is the doomsday argument flawed?
I agree it's a flawed argument. The base concept comes from Bayes' theorem, to the effect that if you randomly choose a member of a set, the characteristics of that member are most likely to be the ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
There's an interesting online book, Meaningness and Time by David Chapman, about people's ways of relating to meaning through history and the concomitant structures of the self. Chapman's model is ...
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Sociological-philosophical theories of society’s tendencies to react against itself, inescapably biased in some way
It would be helpful if your question was more clear, but based on my understanding of it I think you'd want a thorough understanding of biology, evolutionary theory and it's implications on society, ...
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What is the distinction between "experimental philosophy" and Anthropology?
Experimental philosophy studies people's intuitions about philosophical questions. It has nothing to do with anthropology. In many philosophical debates philosophers appeal to intuition, and ...
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Psychoanalytic anthropology
At first I didn't understand why you tacked that question onto the end about the pleasure principle, I thought your question would surely be about Freud's Oedipus complex. Then I began to see you have ...
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Does the doomsday argument assume that you will be born?
You are already born. This is a fact, knowledge you have. You know you are in the first 100 billion people, because that is approximately the number estimated for total humans born until now.
The ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
You may be interested in the book The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich (2020).
The author basically claims that ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
Yes, but for different reasons.
Social ties are certainly weakened in modern, technological societies. We have seen, in just a few generations, a dramatic reduction of family sizes from multiple ...
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Does the current “ruling ontology” deny any possibility of a social causation of mental illness?
Carefully note that when a mental illness is successfully and fully defeated by science, instead of taking note and learning the lesson, we think "Oh those weren't really mental illnesses." ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
I scanned the other answers (not comments) and thought these brief and relevant to the discussion.
"Technological society" defined:
"The chief complaint that sets existentialism over ...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
While I hesitate to respond to a quote of an angry, murderous person, Galileo said he could learn from anyone, so...
Given human nature hasn't changed in 10,000+ years, traditional family values have ...
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What are diversity partitioning and clustering analysis, applied to hominids & race?
Looking at the paper it seems to be talking about diversity partitioning as beginning with pre-identified groups & looking at gene variations. And clustering analysis as finding groups from the ...
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What are society's assumptions about the essential goodness of people?
There isn't a single 'society', so it doesn't make sense to ask whether society's assumptions are one thing or another, since the assumptions vary by society and even within a society. Also, you need ...
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What are society's assumptions about the essential goodness of people?
What is human nature depends on the society and individuals in society. This is the idea behind cultural relativism. From WP:
Cultural relativism is the position that there is no universal standard ...
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Sociological-philosophical theories of society’s tendencies to react against itself, inescapably biased in some way
You might like this answer about the history of dialectic argument, and the emergence of Historical Materialism: Relation of dialectics, as of Hegel and Marx, toward Enlightenment liberalism
And, on ...
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Are children naturally religious or is it inherited?
I wouldn't put too much time into interpreting his aphorisms, but Wittgenstein's perspective might shed some light on the subject for you.
"As long as there continues to be a verb 'to be' that looks ...
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Has anything been written to add to Taussig's work on shamanism?
I don't have a clear picture of Taussig's discussion of this topic as I have not read him in a long time, but your closest bet to getting a Deleuzian response to this question would be via the work of ...
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