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Weakness in Politics: A Physical Approach
In philosophy, it is well established that weakness, at all levels, enables the emergence of cruelty. Not being able to defend oneself physically will lead a weak person to exaggerate her attacking response. Not being able to express thoughts and feelings properly will lead this person to shout, manipulate and deceive. Not being able to...
Problems in Political Discourse
Politics is a matter that is of interest to everyone because our lives are directly affected by it. The way politics and its outcomes are structured determines the accessibility, effectiveness and efficiency of genuine knowledge production, which is ultimately the goal of our being. Therefore, it is natural that politics is a topic of popular...
Die Lüge der Demokratie
Kritik an der Politik war schon immer Mode. Egal, wie es um die Nation steht, die Politik macht es falsch. Dabei fallen unterschiedliche Aspekte der Politik, je nach Lage, in den Blick der gesellschaftlichen Kritik: Gesetze, Verhalten von Politikern, Teilbereiche des politischen Systems und natürlich das System selbst. Die Kritik selbst beruft sich aber oftmals...
The Truth and Consumption
Our minds can do a lot of wonderful things. Among them is treating existential questions through the exploration of logical chains. It is not the primary aim to find answers to those questions immediately, but rather solidly identifying the cognitive paths that can lead us there, as well as establishing patterns of thought that can...
The Importance of Culture in Statecraft
Culture, as defined in Devlet, is “a set of social interactions within an ethnic group”. While other definitions tend to focus on parts of those social interactions and, more often even, the results from those interactions, the devletist definition also encompasses behavioural patterns at the micro and macro levels. Rather than centralising culture around language,...
Russia’s Options Before the War in Ukraine
“War is nothing but the continuation of policy with other means”. This famous quote by General Clausewitz is one of the most important quotes in the history of political and military science. He accurately defines war as a tool of policymaking and, therefore, as a contextually embedded form of coordinated behaviour at the societal level....
