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Philosophy

Mieko Kamiya: Ikigai, The Value of Life

A reason for living.

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Philosophy

Peace Is Not the Absence of Conflict: Rethinking Security

The absence of violence is not necessarily peace. From personal relationships to international affairs, insecurity persists when attempts to resolve conflict reproduce the conditions that generate it.

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Philosophy

War, Wealth and Wickedness

War, wealth and political insecurity reproduce the problems they ostensibly intend to resolve, sustaining destructive relationships whose continuity subsequently appears necessary.

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Philosophy

The Logic of the Moment: Knowledge is Approximate

Knowledge takes form at the boundary between what can be articulated and what cannot yet, or perhaps cannot ever, be fully known. Hubris remains evanescent.

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Philosophy

consciousness and the human world

Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.

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politics

political philosophy’s hidden assumption: the person

Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.