Fred Guerin
What is ‘Critical’ About Critical Thinking?
“Dare to think for yourself”. (Immanuel Kant) “What you think is less important than how you think”. (Christopher Hitchens) “Critical...
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Fred Guerin
- May 31, 2020
- 3 min
The Dehumanizing Cult of Behaviourism
If you really want to talk 'cult' then you need go no further than the pseudo-science of behaviourism. The latter theory has had a...
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Fred Guerin
- May 31, 2020
- 2 min
How Free Should Freedom of Speech Be?
Philosopher's Café “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” [George Orwell]...
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Fred Guerin
- May 31, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Depravity
There are two realities that the present pandemic has made abundantly clear: 1. The environmental destructiveness of our current...
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Fred Guerin
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
Is Privacy Important?
Philosopher’s Café “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than...
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Fred Guerin
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
Does God Matter?
“I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar”. [Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols] “We are each free...
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Fred Guerin
- May 25, 2020
- 5 min
Retribution or Restoration?
In a retributive punishment oriented legal system it is claimed that when justice is done, and seen to be done, it provides a catharsis...
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Fred Guerin
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
The Legacy of The Trump Presidency in so Many Tweets
“It can be asserted that the community, too, evolves a super-ego under whose influence cultural development proceeds... The super-ego of...
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Fred Guerin
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
On the Manufactured Face of Facebook
The French-Jewish philosopher Emanuel Levinas said that when human beings are in ‘the living presence of one another’, when they are...
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Fred Guerin
- May 25, 2020
- 5 min
Fatalism: The Default Doctrine in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
Our present neoliberal capitalist world leaders counsel us to passively submit to what they say over and over is ‘the best of all...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
On the Paradox of Consumption In an Age of Climate Warming
The Wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
On Animal Welfare and Animal Rights
"Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
On Neoliberal Capitalism and Food Security
Cindy Holleman, an economist working with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, is certainly right when she identifies the three main...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
On Philosophy, Politics and Climate Change
What to do about climate change is not simply a question for activists, scientists, politicians and economists—it’s a question for...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Ongoing Protests in Chile
Typically mainstream news reporting on the ongoing civil protests throughout Chile claim that the latter were in response to a 30 peso...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
On Reclaiming the Canadian Commons
What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. (Aristotle, Politics) The word ‘common’ means “together in one”. In...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
Putin, COVID-19 and Autocracy
As Russia grapples with the Corona virus Russians trust in how Vladimir Putin has handled the crisis is at an all-time low. Despite the...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
Stephen v. Albert
Here’s the difference between an idiot who happens to be a physicist, and a person of wisdom who happens to be the physicist without whom...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Consumption is the Root Problem
There is an inescapable logic regarding the relation between consumption, energy and climate warming that it seems we humans would rather...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Serving Employees and Community the Bezos Way
A few years back Amazon's Jeff Bezos got together with a number of other billion dollar tech CEO's and declared in a signed letter that...
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