Philosophy

Deconstructing Social Classification and Mobility: The Hindu Varna System, Plato's Magnificent Myth, and the British Caste System

Aadi C. Krishna - This research elucidates the striking parallelism between the Hindu Varna System and Plato's Magnificent Myth through an unorthodox view of their class-based classification, social mobility, and meritocracy while arguing that these stem from the Arguments from Division... Keep Reading »

Ethics of the Far Future: Why Longtermism Does Not Imply Anti-Capitalism

Nathaniel Peutherer - It has recently been argued that longtermism it at odds with capitalism. It is said that while longtermism places great emphasis on the value of far future benefits, capitalism neglects the future by favouring short-term gains. Therefore, those who are sympathetic... Keep Reading »

Euthanasia and Consensual Harm: Evaluating the Moral and Legal Asymmetry of Self- and Other-Regarding Acts

Anna L. Peters - Suicide is legal in almost every country, but places where euthanasia is permitted remain in the minority (Mishara and Weisstub 2016). In many legislatures, suicide is not a criminal act. It is, however, a criminal act for you to assist me in this, either indirectly... Keep Reading »

Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx

Tianhao Hou - Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of capitalism, but he did not fully tackle the relationship between biopower and capitalism. In this article, the author fills this gap through... Keep Reading »

Conservative Perspectives of Political Outsiders

Audrey Cialdella - Western conservatism is often conceived as the philosophy of large landowners in the past and business executives in the present. Heightened awareness of racial and class disparities in recent years has increased the perception that conservatism is the ideology of... Keep Reading »
 
 

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Behavioral Psychology
2022, Vol. 14 No. 04
Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome: A New Kind of Depression?
By Katelynn V. Healy
Marion Godman makes the argument that Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome (PWS) makes the case for psychiatric disorders as a natural kind. Godman argues that we can classify kinds according to their shared ‘grounding’, but we need not... Read Article »
Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome Culture-bound Syndrome Natural Kinds Psychiatric Kinds
Comparative Philosophy
2021, Vol. 13 No. 12
Deconstructing Social Classification and Mobility: The Hindu Varna System, Plato's Magnificent Myth, and the British Caste System
By Aadi C. Krishna
This research elucidates the striking parallelism between the Hindu Varna System and Plato's Magnificent Myth through an unorthodox view of their class-based classification, social mobility, and meritocracy while arguing that these stem from the... Read Article »
Plato Hinduism Comparative Philosophy Caste System British Colonialism Social Class India
Economic Ethics
2021, Vol. 13 No. 11
Ethics of the Far Future: Why Longtermism Does Not Imply Anti-Capitalism
By Nathaniel Peutherer
It has recently been argued that longtermism it at odds with capitalism. It is said that while longtermism places great emphasis on the value of far future benefits, capitalism neglects the future by favouring short-term gains. Therefore, those... Read Article »
Capitalism Anti-Capitalism Longtermism Immortal Investors Economic Ethics
Ethics
2021, Vol. 13 No. 10
Euthanasia and Consensual Harm: Evaluating the Moral and Legal Asymmetry of Self- and Other-Regarding Acts
By Anna L. Peters
Suicide is legal in almost every country, but places where euthanasia is permitted remain in the minority (Mishara and Weisstub 2016). In many legislatures, suicide is not a criminal act. It is, however, a criminal act for you to assist me in this... Read Article »
Euthanasia Consent Ethics Criminal Law Public Health Hospice
Metaphysics
2021, Vol. 13 No. 10
The Structure of Fiction and the Emergence of the Other-Than
By Dani W. Park
In this essay, I will analyze the structure of fiction, arguing that this structure is a duality that rests upon a spirit that defines and propels fiction in reality. This spirit, which I refer to as the Other-than, is the metaphysical embodiment... Read Article »
Fiction Metaphysics Other-than Dualism Imaginative
Critical Theory
2021, Vol. 13 No. 05
Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx
By Tianhao Hou
Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of capitalism, but he did not fully tackle the relationship between biopower and capitalism. In this article, the author... Read Article »
Biopower Foucault Capitalism Philosophy History Critical Theory Marxism
Epistemology
2021, Vol. 13 No. 05
The Holistic Universe: Wisdom as Attention to the Cohesion of Physicality and Immateriality
By Erin Aslami
We are all witnesses. You see and are seen; you step in and step out. You brush your hair out of your face, out of the face of a friend, a lover. Sometimes, you feel that the lock of hair is something more than the strands that compose it, and that... Read Article »
Wisdom Cohesion Physicality Immateriality Epistemology
Behavioral Psychology
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
Gender Theory vs. Pragmatism: A Point of Diversion Between Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and the Psychosocial Limitations of Gender Construction
By Melissa Padron
The question of what it means to be a gendered individual has been left unanswered in light of its variants. The feminist movement proceeding the Industrial Revolution propelled philosophical and literary works, such as Simone de Beauvoir’... Read Article »
Gender Feminism Behavioral Psychology Judith Butler Gender Theory
Poetry
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry
By Adeola P. Egbeyemi
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity. This essay will explore how poet and scholar Sir Philip Sidney effectively manipulated poetic devices in... Read Article »
Poetry Poetic Devices English Literature Philosophical Poetry
Political Philosophy
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
Conservative Perspectives of Political Outsiders
By Audrey Cialdella
Western conservatism is often conceived as the philosophy of large landowners in the past and business executives in the present. Heightened awareness of racial and class disparities in recent years has increased the perception that conservatism... Read Article »
Political Philosophy Law American Politics Conservatism
Comparative Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage
By Yiyang Chen
Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new conception of the Middle Passage’s spatiotemporality. With the slave trade haunting the living, this paper attempts... Read Article »
Comparative Literature Comparative Philosophy Queer Theory Black Feminism Postcolonial Literature Poetry Feminist Theory Middle Passage Slave Trade
Philosophy Of History
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
The Self-Cognizant Idea and the Methodological Transformation of Hegel, Marx, and Ditlthey's Historiography
By Youngdahl Kaylee
The transformation of the philosophy of history reveals how and why methodological systems change over time. Methodological systems engage in contemplative action, and strive to assemble a distinguishable pattern of historical study. Though structure... Read Article »
History Materialism Idealism Relativism Philosophy Of History
Philosophy Of Mind
2020, Vol. 12 No. 12
The Brain, Gut and Consciousness: Microbiology of Our Mind
By Radek Vana
This paper presents a view that the brain is not the only actor responsible for emergence of our consciousness and that our consciousness is in fact a product of the brain-gut-microbiome axis. The paper first shows relevance of the contemporary... Read Article »
Consciousness Mind Brain Gut Microbiome Existentialism
Economic Theory
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation
By David L. Myers
This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum. Noting the insufficiencies of neoclassical economics to deal with problems of cultural difference and priority, the... Read Article »
Postcolonial Literature Value Theory Economic Value Cross-Cultural Communication
Ethics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Aquinas, Just-War Theory, and Pandemic Response
By Ezekiel Vergara
“Just-war theory,” as it is called, aims to guide action during warfare, so that states and individuals can act ethically. Because warfare is often analogized to epidemics, this paper will argue that just-war theory can recommend how... Read Article »
Thomas Aquinas COVID-19 War Ethics Government Political Theory
 
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