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Enlightenment and the search for meaning

The premise of the enlightenment would be that we have finally discovered how to live rationally. Authority is located in natural science, free enterprise and free markets, and empirical knowledge. Thus we can cast aside all the superstitions of the past and finally become what we were meant to be. Can we? Not everyone agrees. Marx, Freud […]

Posted 26 December 2018 † Johan § Philosophy § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Japan’s imitation of the West

Memes often travel between neighboring countries and cultures like genetic material travels between bacteria in a colony. The imitation by one culture of another is rarely a pure copying though, but usually a kind of creative act: a selection, curation, editing, emphasising, painting over. But the distance between some cultures is greater than between others. Edward […]

Posted 14 December 2013 † Johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,