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In 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram began an experiment that left humanity with one of the most dismal and damning self-portraits we've ever seen. It seemed to demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of regular Americans are willing to administer a lethal electric shock to a human victim when prompted to do so by an authority figure. A decade later, Milgram's fellow psychologist and former high school classmate Philip Zimbardo performed another experiment at Stanford University that captured on tape the transformation of regular college students into authoritarian monsters. In a matter of days, those playing the role of guards had the prisoners going mad in solitary confinement and defecating in buckets in their cells. Zimbardo shut the experiment down half way through, but only after his fellow psychologist and future wife appealed to his sense of humanity.
You're As Evil as Your Social Network: What the Prison Experiment Got Wrong
2010 Special Issue: Culture and Crisis Edited by Joseph G. Ramsey Introduction Joseph G. Ramsey "Culture and Crisis" The Current Conjuncture: Capitalist Crises and the Crisis of the Left
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Strauss’s Rousseau and the Second Wave of Modernity – Steven B. Smith : the art of theory – a quarterly journal of political philosophy
Leo Strauss’s Rousseau chapter in Natural Right and History is perhaps the most neglected aspect of the book. This is surprising because Strauss himself paid Rousseau the considerable compliment of taking him seriously. At a time when Rousseau was dismissed as either a crank outside the philosophical canon or as a dangerous obscurantist responsible for the radical politics of the French Revolution, Strauss helped to revive a serious interest in his philosophical thought.Autonomy is variously rendered as self-law, self-government, self-rule, or self-determination. The concept first came into prominence in ancient Greece (from the Greek auto-nomos ), where it characterized city states that were self governing. Only later–during the European Enlightenment–did autonomy come to be widely understood as a property of persons.
Autonomy: Normative
Political philosophy begins with the question: what ought to be a person’s relationship to society?
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Leo Strauss was a German- Jewish émigré political philosopher and historian of political thought, who wrote some fifteen books and eighty articles on the history of political thought from Socrates to Nietzsche. Strauss was no ordinary historian of ideas; he used the history of thought as a vehicle for expressing his own ideas. In his writings, he contrasted the wisdom of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle with the foolhardiness of' modern philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke.
Canada Research Chair for Social Justice: Shadia B. Drury
{*style:<b>Truth, Philosophers and Reading Between the Lines: A Critical Examination of the Methodology of Leo Strauss </b>*} Leo Strauss’ contains a striking claim. All great works, we are told, contain two teachings: an “exoteric”, “popular teaching of an edifying character, which is in the foreground”, and an “esoteric” (or “philosophical”) teaching “concerning the most important subject.” [1] This “esoteric” teaching is, however, hidden from popular view. It is written – and therefore found – only “between the lines” [2] and discovering it similarly requires “reading between the lines.” [3] Furthermore – and most startlingly – this “esoteric” teaching is not accessible to all: “[it] is addressed, not to all readers, but to trustworthy and intelligent readers only.” [4]
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Logical Fallacies Handlist: Fallacies are statements that might sound reasonable or superficially true but are actually flawed or dishonest. When readers detect them, these logical fallacies backfire by making the audience think the writer is (a) unintelligent or (b) deceptive. It is important to avoid them in your own arguments, and it is also important to be able to spot them in others' arguments so a false line of reasoning won't fool you.
Logical Fallacies Handlist
Semiotics
Semiotics , also called semiotic studies and including (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology , is the study of signs and sign processes ( semiosis ), indication, designation, likeness, analogy , metaphor , symbolism , signification, and communication.
In philosophy , anamnesis ( pron.: / ˌ æ n æ m ˈ n iː s ɪ s / ; Ancient Greek : ἀνάμνησις ) is a concept in Plato 's epistemological and psychological theory that he develops in his dialogues Meno and Phaedo , and alludes to in his Phaedrus . It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. [ edit ] Meno
Anamnesis (philosophy)
Research Our work in the B&T Lab spans a wide range of topics including (but not limited to) self and identity, self-control and self-regulation, ego-depletion, rejection and social exclusion, belongingness, self-esteem, aggression, power, money, free will, consciousness, judgment and decision making, attitudes and persuasion, close relationships, sexual relationships, and terror management theory. Below are descriptions of a few of these topics. For references and downloadable manuscripts of our research, see our publications page. Self-Control Our work on self-control (or self-regulation) centers on the idea that self-control relies on a limited energy source. A single act of self-control consumes this energy source, and later acts of self-control are impaired as a result.
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The Misconception: There is nothing better in the world than getting paid to do what you love.
The Overjustification Effect
The Agnostic Atheism Wager is an informal argument against worshipping God in a religious sense, and for pragmatic/weak atheism .