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Ellen Howell

About “Self and Society”

Hi, I’m Ellen, nonbinary, and I’m the current editor of “Self and Society.” Well, I guess there are a bunch of philosophy publications…

1 min readFeb 23, 2022

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About “Self and Society”

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Tom Sebacher

Myths, Unities, Borders

The myth of nations blurs the lines on maps, But why draw all these borders filled with gaps? Why should “they” not come here or go to…

2 min readJan 30, 2023

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Myths, Unities, Borders

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Tom Sebacher

Public Philosophy, or Philosophy from the Underground

A Dash of Nietzsche

6 min readDec 13, 2022

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Public Philosophy, or Philosophy from the Underground

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Tom Sebacher

Media Markets and Marketing Games

The Problem of Political Media in the Twenty-First Century

5 min readOct 22, 2022

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Media Markets and Marketing Games

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Tom Sebacher

War, Evil, and Crime

Alas, nobody believed him. The prosecutor did not believe him, because that was not his job. Counsel for the defense paid no attention…

6 min readOct 13, 2022

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War, Evil, and Crime

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Tom Sebacher

Defining Identities, the First Problem of Identity

Over the last forty or fifty years, the driving question of philosophy has become: “Who are we, and what are we?”

12 min readMar 30, 2022

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Defining Identities, the First Problem of Identity

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Tom Sebacher

The Order of Things

The world we see around us is one of infinite complexity, and to look at it and think about that world seems to be an important part of the…

1 min readMar 16, 2022

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Tom Sebacher

Spirituality and Its Discontents

“What is Truth? What is the dogma society follows and wants me to follow?”

3 min readMar 13, 2022

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Spirituality and Its Discontents

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Tom Sebacher

Civilization and Its Discontents

While more recent psychologists have disproven Freud’s work on developmental psychology, society remains fixated on his beliefs. One of the…

1 min readMar 9, 2022

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Tom Sebacher

The Dark Side of Knowledge

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu once argued that most studies of society assumed that the society could be separated from the person…

1 min readMar 1, 2022

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Ellen Howell
A writer living in St. Louis, writing about philosophy, literature, and politics. Any pronouns used with respect
Tom Sebacher
Genderfluid BA in Philosophy, BS in History, masters student at Southeast Missouri State. I write about philosophy, history, and politics.
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