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Who said, "a parliament with no opposition should be dissolved"?
Not exactly what you ask but close if you treat cannot be secure as the flip of should be dissolved
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition
Benjamin Disraeli
Dunno about '...
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Does a philosophy scholar in the modern world need to study ancient philosophy?
Is it essential to study all of it in detail? Definitely not. Can it be useful and interesting to have some familiarity with it? Sure. Be selective and use your common sense. Much ancient and even ...
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Does a philosophy scholar in the modern world need to study ancient philosophy?
All terminology regarding philosophy, thinking and sciences is rooted in the ancient Greek language.
If you don't study the historical evolution of knowledge, I doubt that you can make sense of ...
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Is transgenderism a radical rejection of feminism?
There are clearly conflicts between certain aspects of transgender thinking and certain aspects of feminism. To see why this might be the case, consider one aspect of feminism, which is based on the ...
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Does a philosophy scholar in the modern world need to study ancient philosophy?
Unlike science, which has a more linear progression, philosophy is cyclical. Very old ideas can gain new relevance, and long dead philosophers often argue with--and sometimes get the better of--...
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Does a philosophy scholar in the modern world need to study ancient philosophy?
Yes. Unless you think that a botanist should just study the flower and ignore the roots. The fundamental questions that philosophers ask today are the same as those that the ancient philosophers ask. ...
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How is the 'central fiction' of Zionism to be understood politically?
I take it that you are asking about Zionism as a political philosophy, not as current politics. A friend recently said "It all began in 1947", referring to the current Israel/Palestine ...
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Is transgenderism a radical rejection of feminism?
I realized that the question you asked abstracted from the concept of artificial gender. It is known that in some species the number of sexes is more than three. However, hermaphroditism is a creation ...
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Is transgenderism a radical rejection of feminism?
Transgenderism is not a rejection of feminism.
Sex or genders are not absolute. Sex or genders are dependent on conditions. What are the conditions? Body parts like penis or vagina or breasts, ...
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Is transgenderism a radical rejection of feminism?
I don't think the claim "feminism is all about tearing down gender roles" is reconcilable with the beliefs of many people who are widely regarded as feminists. E.g., many people who are ...
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Does the paradox of tolerance mean that intolerance cannot be allowed in a tolerant society?
John Rawls offers this assessment of the problem (A Theory of Justice, 1999 ed., §35):
... it seems that an intolerant sect has no title to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. ... A ...
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Maximizing freedom in a society
No. Your statement sounds reasonable but is not sufficient. If everyone has the right to buy land, what happens when someone buys all of the available land? So right from the start, this freedom is ...
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Was Robin Hood's point of view ethically sound?
First, there was no free market at that time. It was a feudal society. Secondly, Robin Hood's main motivation was to restore the rightful monarch and restore his own social position. The morality of ...
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Nozick-like argument for property rights?
Under Scots Law, the de jure position is that ownership of heritable property (land) depends on holding title. This has long since been codified. But originally, title was established by occupation of ...
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Fanon's 'Concerning Violence' makes the point that Nazism was the culminating point of the project of European Colonialism, how valid is that?
Fascinating question. And definitely a philosophical question. It pertains to political philosophy and specifically the philosophy of nationalism. In many ways, the Belgian Congo was the apotheosis of ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
Technically a nation is just a large collective of people that agree that their they are in a group relationship with each other due to their common, language, heritage, culture, customs, tradition or ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
For the sake of argument, I'll assume you hold to a moral principle that respects a human's right to life, with the caveat that this right is suspended if you point a gun at someone. This could come ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
The United Nations is still considering whether or waging aggressive war should be declared a war crime. That being so, it seems that current international law does not require nations to be peaceful. ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
"Nation" has multiple meanings. One meaning is something like a tribe or clan, a group of related people. I'll assume you don't mean that, because then your question would amount to whether ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
The expression “to have a right” can be misleading. Because juridical obligations and juridical rights are not discovered like a law of nature or like a treasure in the earth. Juridical obligations ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
Self-determination, is what gives every nation on Earth the right to exist.
Conflicts and wars between nations arise in history as part of their evolution. Saying that a nation does not have the right ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
Never consider the love speech or hate speech as permanent. Freedom of speech is impermanent. Freedom of speech arises , changes and vanishes. Freedom of speech is not absolute in time and space. ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
As you allude to, I don't know if it's clear that the proposed scenario is a clear-cut example. In the United States, people protest against the existence of LGBT+ people all the time, and they are ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
Questions about law and policy are questions about compulsion by the threat of violence.
The related question about moral permissibility has an obvious answer. You should not say morally wrong things. ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
If the term hate speech had been around in the 1930's, you can bet your last dollar that anything supportive or defensive of Jewish people would have received that label under the Nazi regime.
The ...
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Freedom of speech
The problem is that the discussion about "free speech" is almost never actually about the freedom to say anything you are physically able to say, but it's really about the ability to speak ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
No. The question is analogous to freedom of movement. I am entitled to move as I like, but with a very large number of conventional constraints. I cannot use my freedom of movement to break into your ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the
United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948:
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
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Freedom of speech
Yes, freedom of speech is desirable and necessary. The First Amendment to the US Constitution prevents the government from abridging freedom of speech. However, there are laws against defamation, ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
Freedom of speech is already abridged by laws on defamation, copyright infringement, national security, contempt of court etc. So the principle is already established that freedom of speech is not ...
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