MORAL EMPATHY Would you harm your pet for a million pounds if no one knew - and then erase the memory?

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Would you harm your pet for a million pounds if no one knew - and then erase the memory?

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Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail We are governed by phantoms. Not the fun kind that rattle chains in castles, but Enlightenment rational ghosts – imaginary citizens who were supposed to be dispassionate, consistent, and perfectly …

Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail. Read my essay.

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Becoming a Woman with Penetration Politics Forget Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness and its icy androgynes — if you want the true metaphor for humanity, look to the sea floor. Flatworms duel with their penises, fencing to decide who inseminat…

Forget Left Hand of Darkness. The true metaphor for humanity is penis-fencing flatworms: every thrust a power play, every loss a womb conscripted. Beauvoir would have a field day.
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Die „Schöne, Neue Medien-Welt“ - ein „sokratischer Dialog" Ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Philosophiebloge „denkatorium“ und „philosophies“ zu der „Schöne, Neue Medien-Welt“ und ihre Auswirkungen

The beautiful, new #mediaworld – a #SocraticDialogue between two #philosophybloggers

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The impact of people who look at us on our identity Sartre’s famous quote “Hell is other people” reflects a complex idea that misanthropy does not capture. It emphasizes how our perception of ourselves is influenced by others&#8217…

Does other people’s perception of us impact the way we think about ourselves?
Read my article, “The impact of people who look at us on our identity”, here:

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