Tag / philosophy
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Studying The Good Life
It has come my time to go, but where to? what to do? who to be? how? To graduate is to sink deep into existentialism. I had only to take five credits this semester to graduate, but I instead enrolled in eighteen: my heaviest load yet. I had a question—a jabbing thought—that I wanted to…
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Addressing Democracy
Zack: “Hey, come on, come get pizza with Rob and me.” Jack: “Nah, I’ll pass. I’m not hungry right now.” Zack: “But we want you to.” Jack: “I’m deciding not to.” Zack: “Too bad. There’s two of us and one of you, so you’re outvoted. Majority rules. You have to come and get pizza with…
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Why is Disenfranchisement Still Acceptable?
BY HENRY KOPESKY -ism. That is how we define prejudice and discrimination today, by identifying the lines along which they occur. Racism, sexism, nationalism, classism; all are abhorrently common in the United States today. At the same time, however, each is largely frowned upon, even if it still persists subconsciously. Although the average American laughs…
