Fred Guerin
Capitalism and Work
In a previous post I spoke of the relation between selfishness and the social contract, as this was understood in Hobbes and then...
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Fred Guerin
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
Before You Click Ask These Five Questions!
Great Britain’s ‘Royal Society’, often referred to as the ‘invisible college’, is a fellowship of scholars, eminent thinkers and...
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Fred Guerin
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
A New World Order is Coming
It has been shown over and over again that the United States much prefers the rule of regressive, backwards religious fanatics and...
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Fred Guerin
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
The Culture of Gun Worship in America
Another American mass shooting, another outcry of grief followed by mourning, another convulsion of rage and call to end the sale of...
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Fred Guerin
- Feb 14, 2021
- 5 min
A New Civilizational Story
Back in the late 1970’s and 80’s it was often claimed by anthropologists, psychologists, economists, environmental biologists and...
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Fred Guerin
- Feb 6, 2021
- 2 min
The Reddit Raiders or How to Stop the Game
It is difficult not to cheer for the group of amateur investors on a Reddit messageboard who began buying stock in a video games retailer...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 26, 2021
- 5 min
Humans as Predicting and Predictable Machines
In an interesting piece in Aeon ('The Problem with Prediction') Joseph Fridman writes “René Descartes claimed that cognition was the...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 24, 2021
- 4 min
The Commodification of the Lifeworld
To commodify something, say a work of art or the environment, is to turn it into that which can be bought or sold. The end goal of...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 13, 2021
- 4 min
Impeachment Act 2
Well, the first stage of impeachment is over with and the results 232 for and 197 against. A total of ten republicans voted with...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
The painting below is called Eratosthenes Teaching in Alexandria, (1635) by Bernardo Strozzi. (A bit of an anachronism here--in...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
Michael Sandal's Kant Lecture
Michael Sandel talks about 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant's understanding of human freedom and his elaboration of a...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Philanthropy and Profit the Bill Gates Way
The Bill Gates Foundation: Call it what it is: not a Foundation but a Front to advance the interests of an already super-wealthy elite....
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
Plato's Cave Revisited
Back in 1973 Orson Welles did a pretty good job bringing Plato's Cave Parable to life through animation. "It is the task of the...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Julian Assange v. Power Elite
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. That is something to cheer about....
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Let's Not Return to Normal
As always, the cries of politicians on both sides for things to 'return to normal' after the COVID pandemic and the recent thuggery in...
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Wearing a Mask as an Act of Love
Wearing a mask in a time of a viral pandemic that spreads mainly through the air when people are near each other, is not a selfish act....
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Fred Guerin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Free Speech v. Inciting Violence
Trump supporters are presently lashing out at FB and Twitter for violating their 'dear leader's' constitutional right to free speech...
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Fred Guerin
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
Voter Fraud? No. Voter Suppression? Yes, indeed
Image in Rolling Stone, July 16, 2020 In yet another court decision Trump's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission failed 'as...
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Fred Guerin
- Dec 10, 2020
- 8 min
On Lying and Truth in a Post-Trump World
There is a certain inevitability to lying in politics not just because as Hannah Arendt said “truthfulness has never been counted among...
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Fred Guerin
- Nov 29, 2020
- 16 min
On The Manifold Understandings of Time and the Phenomenology of Temporality
Gollum's Riddle This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays...
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