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Yesterday, the Catalan government has overwelmingly voted for independence from Spain and to establish an independent republic. 70 were in favour, 10 were against, and 2 votes were blank. Unfortunately,

Hi guys, I just found a quote from Nietzsche that is entirely applicable to Steemit. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891), Nietzsche writes about Steemit and says: To steem is to create: hear this, you creators!

In a 1950 classic Science Fiction short writing, Ray Bradbury describes a post-apocalyptic world in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. Interestingly, the story lacks human characters and puts an automated

Many early Daoists, like for example the influential Laozi and Zhuangzi, were extremely critical of political authority and advised rulers that the less controlling they were, the more stable and effective

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of knowledge. It questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired: How can we know something? What is true? What is justified

In one of my previous posts, Philosophy 101 #15, I explained what post-modernism is. In this post, I'd like to share a small thought I had lately which is: "Post-modernism is a self-refuting

Image 1: Marcel Duchamp's post-modern art, Fountain. As mentioned in my previous post on modernism, modernism’s foundations are located in its profound confidence in reason and science and revolt against

According to the philosopher, Stephen Hicks, modernism’s foundations are located in its profound confidence in reason and science. It is an era that revolts against the pre-modern reliance upon tradition,

How do we best fight Political Correctness? Jeff Deist from the Mises Institute gives us some interesting suggestions: We have to understand that we are in a real fight against Political Correctness. PC

I just listened to a presentation of the philosopher Stephen Hicks in which he explains the Postmodernist Left's psychology in Nietzschean terms. I find this presentation interesting enough that I would

In my previous two posts, I discussed Hegel's Sittlichkeit thesis and explained why freedom and autonomy are practically impossible within Hegel's ideal kingdom. In this post, I'd like to explain shortly

Having explained Hegel’s Sittlichkeit thesis in my previous post, I will now discuss whether individuals can become truly autonomous in Sittlichkeit. In short, I believe that it’s practically impossible.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) is one of Germany’s most influential philosophers. Merleau-Ponty once wrote that all the great philosophical ideas of the past century – the philosophies of

There’s a grand conflict between the following two commitments at universities: 1. The commitment to Truth 2. The commitment to Social Justice Jonathan Haidt, a Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York

The epistemologically modest person is someone who is aware that he knows just how little he knows. It was well expressed by Socrates when he said: “All I know is that I know nothing”. I believe that this

One strength of democracies, according to many of its proponents, is the creation of ‘the public sphere’ in which people are allowed to discuss their political views openly. Jürgen Habermas The philosopher,

I was introduced to Nietzsche during some of the darkest days of my life. It happened at a time when I was suffering from severe existential depression. I recall so well what happened then. Reading the

One of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous quotes is “God is dead”, but what did he mean with it? The proclamation that God is dead appears in several of Nietzsche’s works. The most important passage in

The libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick writes in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) that the political philosopher should take value pluralism seriously. Value pluralism is the fact that people hold

It is generally believed by proponents of a representative democracy that the voter elects political agents who will decide policies that represent the will of their principals. As these principals all