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Does this invalidate Dr Johnson’s refutation of solipsism?
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
“The Liberal Principle: Checking of each by each through public criticism is the only legitimate way to decide who is right.”26 Unlike the other four, this last principle cannot be accepted by postmodern Social Justice thought. Theory insists that it isn’t acceptable to criticize some ideas. It also holds that whether a person is right or wrong can
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It was William of Occam who propounded the fateful doctrine of nominalism, which denies that universals have a real existence.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Dans la glaciation politique des sciences sociales américaines des années 1950, Wright Mills apparaît en effet comme un franc-tireur, attaquant aussi bien les constructions théoriques pompeuses d’un Talcott Parsons que la division extrême des objets de recherche pratiquée par l’empirisme caractéristique du tournant béhavioriste. Il proclame son att
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Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy)
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Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism
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philosophers, called tyranny. They had in mind the usurpation of power by a single individual or group, or the circumvention of law by rulers for their own benefit. Much of the succeeding political debate in the United States has concerned the problem of tyranny within American society: over slaves and women, for example.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
What did the dead Joan of Arc hear? Insight or delusion? Next week he’ll tell his undergrads about Durkheim, Foucault, crypto-normativity: How reason is just another weapon of control. How the invention of the reasonable, the acceptable, the sane, even the human, is greener and more recent than humans suspect.