philosophy.com'Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainity and agitation distinquish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones ... All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.' Marxdesert + retribution- May 31, 2008 If utilitarianism is our public philosophy as it were, then the significance of 'harm', is the key concept for utilitarians to judge what is good and bad in terms of consequences. Of course, many law and order conservatives reject utiltiarianism in favour of desert. Retributivism offers a model that is not about consequences at all. Instead, retributivism is about punishing offenders because they deserve punishment. Deserve punishment means to be morally blameworthy. The retributivist thus...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/2008/05/new-post-69.html the liberal Managerial State- May 28, 2008 In his After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State Paul Gottfried argues that the contemporary liberal managerial state does not leave people alone, is neither indifferent to their values nor afraid to exercise power for the sake of overriding and changing them, and is manifestly not a broker among competing interests. As the Rudd Government in Australia indicates, the liberal managerial state is in fact an imposing system of power, backed by a huge public sector, by lower and...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/2008/05/in-his-after-li.html a managerial liberal state- May 27, 2008 In this review of Paul Edward Gottfried's After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State that managerial liberalism, by which is meant the the practice and ideology of contemporary Western societies bears little resemblance to historical liberalism and in many ways have its opposite. Where, after all, is the division and limitation of power, the protection of private property, and recognition of an nviolate private sphere where the state has no business How can an order be liberal, in.http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/2008/05/in-this-review.html Piccone, modernity, tradition- May 23, 2008 In his article Combating Modernity: Piccone and the Role of Tradition in the Present Age in Telos Issue 131 (Summer 2005) David Goss conveniently spells out Piccone's argument about modernity and tradition. He says that Piccone's argument is this: what had been occurring over the past several decades was a systematic assault not only on tradition as such, but on the social, cultural, and communal underpinnings of tradition. The cause and impetus of this assault was modernity, for according to...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/2008/05/new-post-68.html universities as the knowledge business- May 19, 2008 Timothy Luke in Telos says that under a neo-liberal mode of governance Husserls vision of intellectuals as functionaries of humanity becomes less and less viable under these conditions until even a pretense of anyhumanitarian function disappears in the fog of key competencies, general education goals or practical skills that rolls over universities with the technicization of thought and knowledge. Universities no longer seek truth, progress or freedom. are being remade as dedicated producers of.http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/2008/05/universities-as.html escaping the 20th century- May 18, 2008 In the The Long March Out of the 20th Century in Telos Robert DAmico and Paul Piccone say that: modernity and its successor, postmodernity, remain the broad horizons within which all problems are still framed, despite the fact that they have provided no viable solutions but, at best, only misleading ones. Although the kind of theoretical watershed prefigured but never registered after 1989 had finally arrived with 911 and the beginning of a new world order, and even the stagnant intellectual...http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/2008/05/new-post-67.html |