December 2010
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Me in Us
In his attempt to create a model of society based on authenticity, one of the main factors that, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has to consider is how to devise a system that can produce an effective community while taking care of the wants and needs of people as individuals.
Several attempts have been made throughout history to solve the old problem Taylor is trying to solve. As a...
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Maximizing Horizons
An essential part of Richard Rorty’s liberal utopia is the inclusion of the greatest amount of human beings possible into what he calls the “we”. This denomination corresponds to the group of people with which one identifies, as opposed to the “others” who are considered different, and many times, inferior to the “we”. Thus, extending the “we” to every human being is the first step toward global...
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958), part 3, chapter 16 (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
