Political Philosophy

-Notes and first attempts at envisioning a hermeneutical epistemology of epistemic justice as a form of prescriptive justice This is an experimental self-publication of a thesis. If anything, it is a work in progress that was loosely inspired by the formulaic syntax of academia, and anyone is free to dissect…

AUSTIN. Author Max Borders has launched his new book, The Decentralist. The book, published by Social Evolution, offers a comprehensive philosophy Borders refers to as “Decentralism.” “Too many of us are putting up with authoritarians on the left and right,” says Borders. …

One of the most famous thought experiments in the history of philosophy is the “Veil of Ignorance”. Formulated and popularized by John Rawls and his “A Theory of Justice”, the experiment is meant to provide a hypothetical situation from which we can deduce principles of justice and fairness. In this…

A Virtual Government Would Be Nice (4) We have proposed the system below before. Mirror Budget as Streaming Budget Votes From Mirror Budget to Weak Anarchism (3)vection.medium.com See the citation for details, but in short, it is a system in which all citizens act as a “government” to determine budget allocations, well aggregated to determine how to spend taxpayer money as much as possible without a government. …

Abstract Among the academics and pseudointellectuals of bourgeois society, a misinformative philosophical trend of perennial popularity is what I will call the spectrum theory in various forms: the idea that political ideas can essentially be expressed, explained, and compared through some form of “spectrum” diagram. It is easy to understand…

Wow! This entire thing is going to sound quite pompous and I think this’ll be like one of those things that one revisits a few years down the line and is like, "Wow! It’s spectacularly cringe, isn’t it?” …

Political Philosophy The Modern State as the Living Image of War After the end of the Second World War, many European nations paid war reparations for the destruction inflicted on other countries. If the dictator is the main radical instigator of wars, why does the sovereign state have to pay for the damages to other nations? …