Tag: non-rigorous

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    Dussel’s Blind Eye and Totalizing Victims

    I am currently reading Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion. As is apparent by my last post, I have some unresolved dilemmas with Dussel’s thinking. Concretely, last post revolved around the Material Criterion which stated that: Whoever acts humanly[1] always and necessarily has for the content of their act some […]

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    The Problem(s) with Dussel’s Extensive Anthropocentrism

    Enrique Dussel’s (2011) Ética de Liberación En la Edad de la Globalización y de la Exclusión [Ethics of Liberation. In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion] is the culmination of a life project which Dussel initially embarked on in the early 1970s. The project was (or is, as I will argue it is not finished) […]

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    Anxiety (Not-Knowing) as Tool

    It has been some time since I last wrote. Perhaps it is the interminable tasks which surmount me, but I find that even in my free time, I am unable to think, to reason, to battle with my ideas. New arguments are presented constantly to me, more and more, and with each burst of novelty […]

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    Being as My Ancestors

    I remember, when I was possibly six or seven, that one night I was crying uncontrollably because I realized that at one time I would have to die, and this meant non-existence. This happened several nights. Thoughts stormed all over my head, from “what is non-existence”, to “how does it feel”, “how do we know […]

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    Autopoiesis, the self, the Other, and Episteme

    As a student of Philosophy and Politics, one naturally desires to eventually be one of the thinkers they so often read. That-be-it, become or transcend the space of the reader and gently sit in the chair of the writer. Oh, what satisfaction must that produce! But, what even gives the right-of-use to any thinker of […]