(230) Yes, Canada Actually Wants to Queer Your Child, with Melanie Bennet - YouTube
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Saving Liberalism from Democracy through Confucianism: Response to Critics | Journal of Social and Political Philosophy
" The Confucian Global Order
In my book, another key proposal is a Confucianism-inspired model of state identity and global order, the so-called Confucian New Tian Xia Model. It is based on the Confucian idea of universal but hierarchical care. This kind of care justifies a weak form of patriotism, because one’s care for one’s own state should be stronger than one’s care for foreigners, and it can also avoid the downfall of nationalism that disregards the interest of foreigners, because one still cares about foreigners in the Confucian model. I argue that this model is a middle ground between the nation-state model and cosmopolitanism, and offers a realistic utopia to address the challenges posed by a globalized world that consists of nations or states. This proposal is not commented by the critics, and only Yvonne Chiu offers some criticisms of the basis of this model, the hierarchical care promoted by Confucianism."
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Full article: An epistemic case for confucian democracy
"This paper examines the relationship between democratic participation and the well-being of the people – a fundamental aim of Confucian government. It argues that although the value of democratic participation for people’s moral cultivation may be dubious (as suggested recently by Sungmoon Kim), democratic participation is key to meeting other salient aspects of people’s well-being. Drawing on developments in Western epistemic analyses of democracy, this paper shows that the complexity of political issues in developed countries makes democracy an important decision-making process to enhance the well-being of most of the members of society."
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Dialogues on the Epicurean Gods | Society of Friends of Epicurus
"Dialogues on the Epicurean Gods
Our tradition is firmly secular and most modern Epicureans would label themselves atheists, humanists, or agnostics, but in antiquity the founders of our School were all pious men, and the ancient atomists had a naturalist theology according to which the Gods were naturally evolved beings who lived in the space between the worlds (metakosmai), and whose bodies were–like all bodies–made up of atoms and void.
The two traditional interpretations of the Epicurean Gods are the older, realist view according to which Gods are natural, sentient beings who live in never-ending ataraxia as described by our Sages, and the newer, idealist view according to which Gods are mental constructs which are, perhaps, therapeutically, culturally and spiritually useful, but nonetheless imaginary. A third view has been proposed in our generation, according to which belief in Gods is neither necessary nor natural, and that their existence can not be justified using our Canon.
But we live in a world governed by fear and awe of Gods, and recently some of the members of Society of Epicurus have been engaged in discussions about the nature of the Epicurean Gods in order to answer questions posed by students of philosophy. Furthermore, we also live in an age where science fiction has begun to explore in detail the repercussions of the possibility of the existence of superior extraterrestrial beings, which is inherent in Epicurean speculation on the innumerable worlds. Portions of these discussions are being published here for the benefit of anyone new to the subject, and to encourage the study of alternative, naturalist views on the Gods as entities within a natural ecology and cosmology rather than as characters in fables and in people’s supernatural fancy."
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The Complete Venus Project Library Set | The Venus Project
"We are glad to present the wealth of knowledge that The Venus Project has accumulated during 75+ years. The content here is a wonderful opportunity for people interested in a Resource Based Economy to learn more about it, while at the same time help to support this social direction. "
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Mythos and Logos in Losev's Absolute Mythology on JSTOR
"Mythos and Logos in Losev's Absolute Mythology
Vladimir L. Marchenkov
Studies in East European Thought
Vol. 56, No. 2/3, Aleksej Fedorovich Losev: Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Jun., 2004), pp. 173-186 (14 pages)"
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(223) Justin Brierley and Tom Holland: Are we witnessing a rebirth of belief in God? - YouTube
"Over the last few years, something's started to shift. Podcaster and author Justin Brierley has been hosting high-profile debates between Christians, atheists, and agnostics for nearly two decades, and in that time he's seen the conversation change. A new set of so-called secular thinkers are turning away from the materialist non-story of reality and reconsidering how the Christian story speaks to today’s meaning crisis.
In this live episode, hosts Paul Woolley and Grace Fielding chat to Justin and Tom Holland, author of the bestselling book 'Dominion' and host of the hugely popular podcast 'The Rest is History'. Together, they explore why new atheism is growing old and the Christian view of reality is making a comeback."
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