ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Political analysts often dismiss postmodernism, claiming that it is self-contradictory or simply irrelevant to the social sciences. While claims about the self-contradictory nature of postmodernism have some grounding, the latter assertion is more difficult to justify. In this article, I consider the main contributions of postmodernism to the discipline of political science and why these …
I am glad to come across this video because the young guys have major elements of my own thesis. They only need to be informed about politics and natural laws governing society’s self-organizing process (diffusion, adaptation, and integration/cohesion). They are on spot regarding local self-determination and the need for change in America’s foreign policy orientation. …
This is a book as stated in the title on postmodernism. Postmodernism rejects medieval philosophy based principally on tradition, faith and mysticism (about 300 BCE to 1450 ADE) and modern philosophy represented primarily by enlightenment. Because enlightenment was a resurrection of the Socrates method or classical philosophy based on reason as advanced by the SPA …
This video shows succinctly how the so-called western philosophy spreads confusion and subjects both individual and societal lives to ignorance. According to this “philosopher” requiring children to go to school is taking the children’s rights away or putting constraints on the children’s liberty. This thinking is shared by both conservatives and liberals and hence the …
We are political conservatives who have spent most of our adult lives working to support the constitution and the conservative principles upon which it is based: limited government, liberty, equality of opportunity, freedom of religion, strong national defense, and rule of law. Read more
A conservative Jurors group investigated the more than 60 Trump cases it made to the courts system and released a report titled “Lost, not Stolen.” In this video, two of those Jurors talk on Morning Joe. Watch the video
Decision making in a democracy must respect democratic values, while advancing citizens’ interests. Decisions made in epistemic democracy must also take into account relevant knowledge about the world. Neither aggregation of independent guesses nor deliberations, the standard approach in epistemic democracy offers a satisfactory theory of decision-making that is at once time-sensitive and capable of …
ABSTRACT: The contemporary Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri (1893-1983) developed his philosophy in constant dialogue with the past. Zubiri believed that there are fundamental flaws with classical philosophy that require a fresh approach. His critique of classical philosophy falls into three areas: conceptual, factual, and scope. The first is treated in this paper with respect to five …
This issue is a hot topic in the United States today. Basically, it is a tension between those who want to get rid off race preferential treatment such as affirmative action and those who want to maintain preferential treatment as a mechanism for protecting minorities from undue treatment by the white-oriented system. This video presents …
On Oct. 19, 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée, having idled away more than a month in Moscow, left the burned and devastated city on its retreat back through the western provinces of the Russian Empire, where it could wait out the winter. The emperor decided to make a detour to Kaluga in the south, where he planned …