Category: Philosophy
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Transhumanism?
I am going to start a new line of posts now: I want to shift to technology. To begin this category of posts, I want to ask a big picture question. How far are you willing to go? How far is technology allowed to go in pursuit of making a…
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Libertarians Miss the Point
Most of the people that read this post will either love or hate what I am going to argue, so oh well in advance. What I want to argue is relatively specific today: when it comes to right-wing libertarians in a liberal democracy, they often simply miss the point with…
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Who Should Control the Courts?
Today, I want to pose a question that I think gets swept under the rug both in everyday circles and many academic circles. Who should control the courts? While the answer is more intuitive and guttural when it comes to who should control the legislature, the question of the courts…
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The Rule of Reason
It is the basic responsibility of those vested with political power of any kind to care about reasons. This is not just to say one must strive to “win” the argument: one must understand the honest form of the disagreement at hand. I want to discuss today how individuals often…
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Democratic Slippage
I want to shift away from the plain and ordinary politics of the election to a more general (and more philosophical) argument. How does democracy end? To be clear, I am talking about contemporary, representative, liberal democracies, not anything we can call a ‘democracy’. While democracies can obviously end due…
Joshua Paschal 