Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Note 164
If inbuilt contradictions increase the antifragility of a system, the demand for logical coherence is pragmatically incoherent.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
The Problem with Pragmatism
The problem of pragmatism is that it is self-referencing. So despite its attempt at coherence, it does not really tell us anything new. That is, unlike truth, negation is not its basis.
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Realism, Liberalism and the World State
Conflicts are almost always over ideas, or ideas about interests (or what interests are). They are never about biologically-given interests. And ideas, unlike things, have dialectical development.
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The liberals of today are the ape-ancestors of liberals of the future.
They are running up against the incoherence of liberalism in a global world with politics.
Liberalism will have to incorporate the universal aspects of rights and discard the culturally and historically-specific aspects of rights to incorporate all cultural possibilities, and so to become what it is.
The liberalism of today is unable to do this. Therefore the irreversible concept it introduces will be eventually reworked into something that suits the possibility it introduces.
The site of this re-working may not be the nation-state, and in fact, is rather unlikely to be the nation state, which principally serves to characterize and restrict the movement and exchange of people in spatial terms.
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Well, of course there is nothing wrong in being a conservative, but conservatives have always been the idiots of history.
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The liberals of today are the ape-ancestors of liberals of the future.
They are running up against the incoherence of liberalism in a global world with politics.
Liberalism will have to incorporate the universal aspects of rights and discard the culturally and historically-specific aspects of rights to incorporate all cultural possibilities, and so to become what it is.
The liberalism of today is unable to do this. Therefore the irreversible concept it introduces will be eventually reworked into something that suits the possibility it introduces.
The site of this re-working may not be the nation-state, and in fact, is rather unlikely to be the nation state, which principally serves to characterize and restrict the movement and exchange of people in spatial terms.
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Well, of course there is nothing wrong in being a conservative, but conservatives have always been the idiots of history.
Saturday, May 04, 2019
Lesson from Sassure
Not knowing: nihilism is not the negation of knowing but its possibility. The possibility of negation is the possibility of being insofar as it is relational. Knowing is double negation. Philosophy is the negation of that double negation. In other words, its task is to jump across three abysses, to look across three negations, from being to knowing to the possibility of knowing, and to turn it into a single one that can be crossed.
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Note 163
Why the philosophic life? The duty to know in the face of unknowability. Therefore, Strauss - to understand Socrates.
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