Category Archives: Ethics

On Religious Tolerance in Rhode Island

Posted on February 14, 2012 by admin

The question of whether religion has a place in civic life has been a constant source of controversy since the emergence of modern liberal-democratic societies—since it was within them that this very notion of civic or public life first came … Continue reading →

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Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed

Posted on December 29, 2011 by admin

So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading →

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On Reading Schmitt

Posted on October 26, 2011 by admin

I’m reading Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political. Although familiar with his ideas, I confess that I have never read this his most-influential work before. And… well, so far I still don’t like it. Everything makes perfect sense, yes! But … Continue reading →

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Žižek, Bosteels y Buck-Morss sobre cristianismo, activismo y ética

Posted on October 15, 2011 by admin

Como parte de la conferencia Communism, a New Beginning?, Slavoj Žižek, Bruno Bosteels y Susan Buck-Morss se reunieron hoy en Cooper Union, Nueva York, para discutir la intersección de la ética, la religión y la política en el marco de la … Continue reading →

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Terry Eagleton on faith

Posted on September 5, 2011 by admin

In a recent article, Terry Eagleton takes to task Westerners’ anxiety towards Islam. For him, what scares Western civilization about Islam is not suicide-bombers or building-crashing airplanes but the scandalous apprehension generated by a comeback to a world ruled by (religious) faith. Faith—or rather … Continue reading →

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Russell on moral principles

Posted on August 14, 2011 by admin

While thinking on my recent posts (here and here) on the controversy between Boghossian and Fish on moral relativism, I recalled something I read on Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography. I’m talking about the chapter on his adolescent years, specifically the section he … Continue reading →

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More on moral relativism

Posted on August 12, 2011 by admin

A reader pointed out that I should have paid more attention to Boghossian’s arguments against Fish when I wrote my commentary on their virtual discussion on moral relativism. He mentioned a reply to Fish’s reply that Boghossian published thereafter. Also, … Continue reading →

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Boghossian vs. Fish on Moral Relativism

Posted on August 2, 2011 by admin

Right now, I’m working on a series of papers that include a lot of philosophical stuff and critical theory in analyzing Roberto Bolaño’s work. I guess this makes me somehow keen to any philosophical discussion like the one Stanley Fish and … Continue reading →

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