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“To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in the demolition of society”

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In the following lines (pdf-version) I will show that Quines critique on de re modality offered in §41 of his “Word and Object” is not substantial. He gives the following scenario:

[(i)] Mathematicians may conceivably be said to be [...]

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Eines der zentralen Kapitel in Hobbes “Leviathan” ist “Über Grund, Entstehung und Definition des Staates” gleich zu Beginn des zweiten Teils “Vom Staat”. Er versucht hier u.A. Bedingungen der Möglichkeit einer Beendung des Kriegs aller gegen alle (KAGA) anzuführen und die einzig mögliche Art und Weise einer Gründung des Staates darzustellen. Der Übergang vom KAGA [...]

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I wrote two concept maps for this text. It’s on my wiki.

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I wrote a small concept map for this text. It’s on my wiki.

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There are some audio lectures available for recent Zizek lectures on Lacan.
Check them out here.

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Dunja and me are for the next two weeks in Budepast participating at the Summer University - Descrying the World in Physics.
We got a nice hotel with swimming pool 8). The courses are quite interesting so far with a lot of room for discussion.
Yesterday we had some introductory overview and a lecture (advertizement) for physicalism [...]

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 Yesterday evening I gave a speech entitled “Proper Names: a Problem in the Philosophy of Language” for Gerusija in the student culture center “Bunker”.
I gave a short overview in excerpts of the question “How does language hook up to the world” with the stations:

sharing a form: Aristotle and Wittgenstein
Dialectical inspired conceptions of the relationship “signifier [...]

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 Sabrina is working on a series of mindmaps on Schopenhauer. You can check them out here.

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My sister Sabrina and I went to Thomas Mohrs‘ speech “Zur Freiheit verdammt - Unbequeme Thesen des Existenzialismus” last week. Sabrina made some nice mind-map on that topic. Check it out at her wiki.
One of the most interesting topics in Sartre is for me, how he tries first to develop something like a conditio [...]

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