Paradox of the political - Benjamin Arditi

Today's paradox is to be found in Benjamin Arditi's view of the concept of the political (of Carl Schmitt that is):

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"It is worth noticing that the friend-enemy distinction bears the traces of a rather productive paradox with regard to political friendship. It is that the same oppositions that pit groups against each other also contribute to unite a collectivity."

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Some thoughts on art - part 2 (Arendt)

Arendt's views on art understood through her phenomenology of space.

Agrippa's paradox (Sextus Empiricus' modi), and Nietzsche's insight

Agrippa's trilemma, though close to Descartes' dream paradox, is significantly different when it comes to politics and morality.

Descartes' dream paradox

Descartes dream paradox seems to have no solution, though it may help us understand some moral/political points of view.

Some thoughts on art - part 1 (Zizek)

Zizek's exposition on modern and postmodern art; what do artists think?

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The paradox of freedom - a response

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The paradox of freedom (Karl Popper)

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Paradox of entrepreneurship (Noam Wasserman) applied to morality

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Paradox of choice - part 2

The article in the Atlantic on the paradox of choice is misleading on two points.

A paradox of capitalism in form of a joke

Capitalist paradox through a well-known joke on fishing, some thoughts on misattribution of Marx, and Nietzsche's input.

The paradox of tolerance

The paradox of tolerance is not a paradox in moral terms, but a reinstitution of political difference....

Thomson's lamp and a lump of chocolate, or Zeno part 4

An application of Zeno's paradox of motion, challenging the possibility of super-tasks.

The Ross-Littlewood paradox, or Zeno part 3

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Zeno's paradox of motion - part 2

Part 2 of Zeno's paradox of motion, explained as a challenge to traditional Ancient Greek view of flux.

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An explanation of Zeno's paradox of motion, where he argues that there is no such thing.

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Is it strange that those denying the Holocaust, are also the ones who would wish it happened?

'Religion is opium of the people' paradox

Does 'religion is opium of the people' mean that we should abolish it?

Death of Marxism paradox - part 1

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Solipsism, or towards a moral framework

Some concerns and a defense on solipsism as a moral framework.