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Introducing Freedom via Isaiah Berlin

Here’s a brief set of posts that discuss the idea of freedom in liberalism with some brief references to Isaiah Berlin. It’s one introductory avenue into thinking the complexity of what freedom is: mais 31 palavras

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Does the Kingdom of Freedom Begin Where the Kingdom of Necessity Ends?

To begin with, we must first understand what the phrases ‘Kingdom of Freedom’ and ‘Kingdom of Necessity’ mean. Let us begin with the latter, as it is more straightforward. mais 1.879 palavras

Essays

On Pluralism

My article on pluralism in the Festschrift for professor Keränen 2018.

Pluralismi eli yksi ja monta Marjaa.

Teoksessa Kivistö, Kuokkanen, Weide & Virtanen (toim.) Politiikan tulkinta. SoPhi, Jyväskylä 2018, 42-55.

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Κάπνισμα και Διαφωτισμός

Θα πρέπει, ίσως, να διευκρινίσω εξαρχής ότι δεν είμαι καπνιστής, αλλά υπήρξα για πολλά χρόνια. Γνωρίζω καλά την απόλαυση του καπνού αν και για δικούς μου λόγους επέλεξα να ζω με την ψευδαίσθηση ότι εισπνέω μόνο καθαρό αέρα. Ελπίζω ότι στο τέλος θα φανεί πως αυτό το κείμενο δεν έχει σχέση με την υπεράσπιση του καπνίσματος ή το αντίθετο, αλλά με την ανάδειξη μιας εναλλακτικής και πολιτικά ευαίσθητης ανάγνωσης του φαινομένου.

Enlightenment

The task of philosophy, often a difficult and painful one, is to extricate and bring to light the hidden categories and models in terms of which human beings think, to reveal what is obscure or contradictory in them, to discern the conflicts between them that prevent the construction of more adequate ways of organising and describing and explaining experience (for all description as well as explanation involves some model in terms of which the describing and explaining is done); and then, at a still ‘higher’ level, to examine the nature of this activity itself (epistemology, philosophical logic, linguistic analysis), and to bring to light the concealed models that operate in this second-order, philosophical, activity itself. mais 12 palavras

Philosophy

"The Triumph of Despotism …"

When I wrote my award-winning play The Shackles of Liberty, Donald Trump had not yet risen to power. Even so, I can’t help thinking my play has some relevance to our situation today. mais 1.085 palavras

Thinking About Story …