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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Against Elections' and 'Impossible Objects: interviews'

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21 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
20455 Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
20446 Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
20449 Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
20448 Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
20454 Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
468 Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
20456 Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
20447 The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / a. Sovereignty
20086 Nowadays sovereignty (once the basis of a state) has become relative [Reybrouck]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / d. General will
20090 Today it seems almost impossible to learn the will of the people [Reybrouck]
20087 There are no united monolothic 'peoples', and no 'national gut feelings' [Reybrouck]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites
20089 Technocrats may be efficient, but they lose legitimacy as soon as they do unpopular things [Reybrouck]
20088 Technocrats are expert managers, who replace politicians, and can be long-term and unpopular [Reybrouck]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
20452 Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley]
20450 The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 3. Conservatism
20451 Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy
20085 Democracy is the best compromise between legitimacy and efficiency [Reybrouck]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / b. Consultation
20095 A referendum result arises largely from ignorance [Reybrouck]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / c. Direct democracy
20094 You don't really govern people if you don't involve them [Reybrouck]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / d. Representative democracy
20093 In the 18th century democratic lots lost out to elections, that gave us a non-hereditary aristocracy [Reybrouck]
20091 Representative elections were developed in order to avoid democracy [Reybrouck]