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Space dominates everything. Even the most beautiful art gets unenjoyable in the wrong place. Manipulation in this aspect is truly tremendous. If a room doesn't have light, narrowness and a dulling effect hits the psyche, making the view unbearable.
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German philosopher Bruno Liebrucks pointed out that formal logic is essentially of “monetary character:” just as money can be arbitrarily used in all kinds of transactions, formal logic can be applied arbitrarily to all sorts of arguments. The results of these random applications
Analytic philosophers really spend decades studying to ultimately wind up with a worldview almost entirely indistinguishable from a high street bank clerk's. Truly remarkable commitment.
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Philosophically this conceit relies on modern anti-teleology based on the senseless construal by Francis Bacon that causality and teleology contradict each other. Scientists like Konrad Lorenz, have clearly shown that teleological explanations are valueable in Biology.
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That the methods of natural science cannot be applied to political science is an obvious 'liberal' conceit for 'new political realism'. To compare: this was clearly not the case in Aristotle. It seems like the current split of 'Humanities' and STEM is a political trap as well.
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This fundamental fear of exclusion, if combined with a ban on birth control would result in an endless reproduction and maintenance of 'bare life', thus link it to the need to expand. Creating a mass-pleonexia of life.
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The idea of human rights is so dangerous because its only tangible normative goal seems to be the protection of 'bare life'. This is, in any case, the only thing that matters to most modern people. They even willing reduce themselves into ahistorical non-actors for this.
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The abstraction of governance which lies in every proclamation of revelation crucially weakens the power of the state. Modern 'positive right' mirrors this in its brute assertion. In both cases political reasoning is weakened, true power remains hidden, be it a God or society.
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Christianity in its worst forms severs the roots in history and nature. 'Atomization' or modern 'Individualism' is strictly incomprehensible without the de-historicizing force of Christanity, as opposed to the ancient city and family, i.e. the concrete state.
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consider anything as it is, but always have their view distorted by considerations of the activities' reputation and results. Because of this their ambition remains vain and empty, i.e. mere ambition and therefore unsuccessful.
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Plato's Euthydemus is a very beautiful dialogue. It explores the minds of gentlemen, whose ambition for their education and their life and progeny is tremendous but in all this they don't fully entrust themselves to a pursuit, hence they can't ...
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Modern 'science', taken as content and not as method, and furthermore separated from mathematical intuition or training and unsupported by one's own observations, is a large collection of empty words.
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Logic in the ethical sense is just the collection of habits for thinking clearly, not falling prey to the infatuation by mere words, being aware of the basis and order of the imagination. Not confusing rational forms, opinions gained from testimony, experiences or other sources.
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‘Animism’ is certainly true, in the sense that there is a natural capacity or tendency to act as if certain toys, objects are alive. You can even talk to them like animals, and it is not even mysterious. The higher the order of play gets the more self-moving your objects become.
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The critique of 'human rights' as an abstract order is not for them to be effectivized in the concrete order, i.e. currently the national – but to exclude international institutions, including the papacy, from constraining true action by statesmen. Mere speech can't rule.
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'Human rights' transform concrete, spatially ordered states into an abstract legal space that extends across the entire globe, and has the fundamental purpose of ensuring 'free and safe' movement for everything. In the process, concrete order is undermined, the state dies.
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Similarity in kind precedes equality. Only when the former is ensured can formal norms prevail, indeed, only then do they even make sense.
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Whatever one's agenda, enforced moralisms, morals disconnected from knowledge, are a terrible price to pay for the Intelligent because they create a barrier for thought, which, unobstructed by historical and religious concerns, could take its natural, free and logical passage.
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The Hellenic and the Hebraic are the two elements to be fused in Christanity, supposedly making possible a citizenship based on mere agreement on morals, same worship, not race. All particular laws shall be overcome till there is nothing more to feed on in this universalization.
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"... What you have decided to do is to create new races. Seven new races. They will be separate and distinct forever ..." -- Neal Stephenson, Seveneves ...
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The discovery of nature as a standard, and criterion for rights is coeval to the devaluation of the ancestral, and the old generally. The bodies of the younger are obviously superior. As tradition falls, youth becomes the criterion.
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