Tag: Decolonization

  • KbA

    Ethics of Liberation, synopsis Chapter 2

    An attempt to make a summary of Dussels inmense Ethics of Liberation. This post takes on the second chapter.

  • KbA

    Ethics of Liberation, synopsis Chapter 1

    An attempt to make a summary of Dussels inmense Ethics of Liberation. This post takes on the first chapter.

  • KbA

    Stop being open-minded, you will never treat me seriously

    The Eurocentric, no matter how well-intended they are, how open-minded, will never be able to take seriously the non-Western. By taking seriously I mean granting the non-Western with the dignity they deserve as a human being. If the Westerns are only open to listing others but not open to questioning their own views, to the fullest extent, then they will…

  • 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, […]