Shouldn’t everybody have an equal vote? Isn’t majority rule just an excuse to keep minorities down? Is a truly fair democracy even possible? And how do we decide what counts as fair in the first place? This week on Philosophy Talk, we’ll explore answers to these questions!
America’s so-called democracy is under serious strain these days. Some fear that the system may soon be stressed to the breaking point. So we thought we’d start out the summer with a deeper look at Democracy in America.
Alain Badiou, one of France's premiere philosophers and public intellectuals, recently wrote a column inLe Monde评论法国大选在浏览了前四名候选人的特点和相对优势之后，他得出了一个具有讽刺意味的结论:没有理由去投票。
本·卡森是否夸大了自己的人生经历有多大区别?我想没什么。在你认为我是“右翼疯子”之前，请允许我声明一下，我一生都是民主党人(目前最大的政治困境是投票给希拉里还是伯尼)。但作为一名职业哲学家(我也是)，我并不认为我们迄今为止对卡森生平的了解会使他失去竞选总统的资格。