Category: Essay

  • KbA

    The Eternal Victim and the task of Humanity; Dussel pt. 3

    Because we can all be victims, because we have all been victims, and because we will all be victims, our task as humans is to organize ourselves to tend to victims everywhere, every new time they appear, and in every form they may do so. Because in looking at the eyes of the other I see someone who I can…

  • KbA

    On Leadership, between Dussel and Burnham

    For the past months I have struggled with several ideas pertaining to democratic theory. First, on the question of legitimacy (“what gives rulers legitimacy”). Second, on the methods towards electing —and maintaining— a leader (i.e., either presidentialism or parliamentarism, but also exact mechanisms of representation, either representative democracy or direct democracy). Third, and above all, […]