Dialectic

Modern photography and cinema allowed this. However, even if technology is at the origin of perception alterations, it is not the right object to blame for Buck-Morss. Following Benjamin’s dialectics in his essay about the artwork, Buck-Morss uses modern photography to get in present times the real dynamics under fascism. This happens because photography is able to capture what is hidden by Hitler’s aura, what is beyond the anaesthetic world…

The clock strikes precisely noon, the orange-tinted left hand reaches toward the leather cover of Lincoln’s bible, the right hand rising before the presidential oath rolls off his tongue. In January 2017, Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. To celebrate the peaceful transition of power from one presidency to the next, President Trump stood to deliver his Inauguration Speech. In his Inauguration Speech, President Trump, an average orator at best, channels his…

Around roughly 380 BC, Plato composed arguably his most influential political work, The Republic. This dialogue stands out among Plato’s many for several reasons. First, unlike the bulk of Plato’s dialogues, The Republic is more didactic than dialectic. In the dialogue, rather than deconstructing others’ ideas and assumptions, Socrates spends most of the dialogue putting forth his own ideas pertaining to justice and the state, which was highly uncharacteristic. Second, it is Plato’s most…

Segregation is a concept that states both process of social differentiation and special patterns that result from such processes, seen most visibly in the ghettos. (Pacione, 2009). Social segregation is the division of people in a society based on socio-economic constructs such as race, religion and ethnicity, among others leading to inequalities in wealth and achievement among different groups in society which can in turn create and keep power and influence in some groups and keep the…

Walking outside at the end of the night to small streaks of light just coming up from the horizon. The Sun is starting to rise. People have told stories as to why the sun comes up since the beginning of human story telling. For example, according to an Aboriginal story from Australia the sun rises because the animals were tired of living in the dark so they pushed the sun up with sticks. Now the sun walks across the sky with flames only for it to be burned out when in reaches the West side…

the Era of Enlightment, which gave it an ideological basis, and with the wide range of social relations concerning the Industrial revolution, which gave it a space for practical application. Postulates of Marxism derive from the Immanuel Kant’s dialectic idealism, English political economy and French socialism, which are equally reflected in its works. Reaffirming the humane Enlightment tradition, Marx and Engels created their own model of social justice, which derives from the reformation of…

Hindu ‘law-codes’—and this being connoted by Bhairava using his left thumb-nail in all versions— VidûSaka as a ‘supreme Bráhmin’ (mahâ bráhmana) with ‘impure’ qualities befitting an outcast (câNDâla) is his own bráhmanicide (bráhma-hatya). In this dialectic, transgression does not mean violating the rigid observation of taboos but presupposes and completes it only by means of enigmatic transcendence. Access to this sacred-impure that marks the very basis of transgression is mediated by the…

“treatise”, it is imperative to remember that he is writing within a historical context (Laslett) which guides his discussion towards his desired conclusion. Therefore, when studying his discussion of property, we cannot assume his goal is pure dialectics; instead, we must review what is seen as the goal of his essay and see if he correctly connects it to his premises. Following this pattern, I want to explore what I see as the goal of the his chapter concerning property, as well as how his…

In order to deliver a successful speech, there are countless qualities that must be present to reach the emotion and logic of the crowd. Through the use of rhetorical strategies and by having ethics, a speaker or an author can connect with their audience; getting them involved with their writing. In May of 2011, a man by the name of Denzel Washington used multiple rhetorical strategies to deliver a graduation speech at the University of Pennsylvania. While revealing all of the difficult times…

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet written in 1848 by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was published in London just as the series of political upheavals began to erupt, which were also known the Revolutions of 1848. The Communist Manifesto explains the goals of Communism and the theory underlying the influential movement. It argues that class struggles are the motivating force behind all historical developments. The Manifesto was later identified as one of the…