Water flows; its flow can be used to generate electricity. What can a philosopher’s thoughts generate? A longstanding answer from the classical tradition is that philosophy is an intimate part of the good life, having something to do with generating order in the human soul and in the political community.
One of the fundamental doors to reach this state of sublimation is the shamanic ecstasy, which grants the subject a return to the primordiality that precedes what is symbolically understood as the fall from the state of grace, sometimes understood as a sort of evolutionary attempt to expand the genetic consciousness. In other words, the …
Even before the publication of Stephen Marche’s Atlantic piece, “The College Essay is Dead,” there had already been discussions about AI writing programs like ChatGPT in the academy. But the past few months have seen a flurry of activity with college administrators calling emergency meetings, professors changing their assignments, and educators writing essays (some perhaps written by AI?) that range in reaction …
There is a Parmenidean inclination of the state apparatus, according to Thoreau if we take into account the following reflection of Nietzsche: “But Heraclitus will be eternally right in saying that being is an empty fiction.
Instead, based on the narrative of the movie, Napoleon only seeks to escape Elba to meet Josephine again because he is infuriated by the rumors of her contact with the Russian Tsar. It is outrageous because there is no possible way that the people producing the film did not know that Napoleon was well informed …
Habermas, on the other hand, talks more about procedural popular sovereignty. The difference with Arendt lies in his understanding of autonomy. Whereas Arendt, like Carl Schmitt, identifies political autonomy with a specific public space in which citizens confront each other face to face, for Habermas, Kelsen, and Luhmann autonomy is a characteristic of a specific …
The existential void in modernity leads to a crisis, which leads the individual towards a search for meaning. Every search leads to a finding, and it wouldn’t be strange to assume that many of these findings may be of the special type, of the type that seems to burst violently into the individual´s conscience, in …
Somehow, the Barbour jacket is a symbol of a certain kind of person with a certain kind of personal politics, halfway between aristocratic and bourgeois, traditionally conservative until life forces its wearer to wear it until broken in manual work (and become populist) or to ditch it for a more appropriate dress style in government …
The analysis of myths does not and cannot have the aim of showing how people think. And if by means of the myths we can identify certain archaic or figurative expressions of our own folk language, the same observation is made statement, since we, for our part, are retroactively becoming aware from the outside and …
Speaking of Marxism, one might think that the political framing of Italian Elite Theory is similar to the method of Power Elite Analysis, developped by New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills, but the fact is that the former predates the later, and has several key differences that make these two almost impossible to combine, given that …
