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The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
1w ago
Imagine some world of the future where people are picking up the pieces from some cataclysm and they develop a collective. No one owns anything. Everything that's produced is pooled and shared. I'm wondering about whether this is something that dwells in the human potential or not. Is it possible ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
1w ago
I hope that people here have heard about the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester and the counterfactual definiteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur–Vaidman_bomb_tester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_definiteness I have a question: can this experiment be performed at the level of ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
2w ago
I find strange, why the American Civil War happened in the 19th century. I mean that, as far as I can see, civil wars and “Smutas” are an attribute of an authoritarian society, not a democratic one. I understand the mechanism of the Time of Troubles in Russia in 1612 or the Three Kingdoms in China ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
3w ago
NO GROWTH is recommended by many people as a way to curb global warming. Or No Growth is legislated as a way of preserving a suburban community's charm and demographic characteristics. On the other hand, some say that continual and unending growth is required to supply a growing population with the ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
3w ago
Richard Nixon was the first US president to present the idea to the public. Conservatives, paradoxically, were behind the idea, not democrats. The idea that Universal Basic Income could negate the tendencies of the public towards any form of socialism or communism, at the time, might have been a ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
3w ago
If everyone only did work that they “loved and believed in,” civilization would collapse in a week maximum. Adults are supposed to understand that what we want isn’t necessarily the same as what everyone else needs, and we should adjust ourselves accordingly. I’m a cab driver, and that’s probably ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
1M ago
Could anyone provide me with a contemporary example of Thomas Hobbes's Social Contract theory in practice ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
2M ago
Obviously, traditional political categories and divisions are exploited by elite cadres whose true agendas may have little to do with the partisan values they purport to (or try to pretend to) espouse. But I think that a great many people believe in themselves as espousing a particular traditional ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
3M ago
I'd like to get feedback from the Forum on the following thought. Populism in it's core idea, to take one definition by Jane Mansbridge and Stephen Macedo, is "the people in a morally charged battle against the elites". They continue: When we define it like this, we can see that many successful ..read more
The Philosophy Forum » Political Philosophy
5M ago
Robert Paxton, a professor emeritus at Columbia University, defines fascism in his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions; the subordination of the individual to the primacy of the group; the belief in a collective ..read more