Tag: reflection

  • 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…

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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 mediation for the production, reproduction…

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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) to construct an alternative ethics;…

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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 the speed at which texts…

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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 it”, etc. My mother tried…

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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 the writer’s chair? It simply…