Tag: Politics
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What Does FDA Regulate?
Do you know how many of the products you use every day are regulated by the #FDA? About 20 cents of every dollar you spend is on a product regulated by the FDA. But do you know what to contact FDA about since our agency’s responsibilities are closely related to those of several other government…
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Un grupo humillado que busca la restitución de su dignidad tiene mucho más peso emocional que las personas que sólo buscan una ventaja económica
1 La política de la dignidad En algún momento a mediados de la segunda década del siglo XXI, la política mundial cambió drásticamente. El período desde principios de la década de 1970 hasta mediados de la década de 2000 fue testigo de lo que Samuel Huntington denominó la «tercera ola» de democratización, ya que el…
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philosophical monism with democracy and a purely secular moral philosophy based on equality
Throughout the Enlightenment’s history it is this irresolvable duality—rooted in the metaphysical dichotomy of one-substance doctrine (Spinozistic monism) and two-substance dualism, the latter as upheld by John Locke (1632–1704) and Voltaire, as well as other providential Deists and (most) Christians and Jews—that was always the principal and overriding factor shaping its course. (Pg.17) *** Either…
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But while in many places these core democratic values retain only a precarious foothold, they did finally triumph in much of the world after 1945.
That notions concerning “progress,” “improvement of society,” and what one now-forgotten radical-minded novelist of the 1790s termed the “amelioration of the state of mankind” were central to the Enlightenment is scarcely surprising.1 Four out of six of the Enlightenment’s philosophical founding figures—Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle—held that most people’s ideas about the most fundamental questions…
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But the neoliberal revolution attributed to Thatcher and Reagan had to be accomplished by democratic means.
In the US case I begin with a confidential memo sent by Lewis Powell to the US Chamber of Commerce in August 1971. Powell, about to be elevated to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, argued that criticism of and opposition to the US free enterprise system had gone too far and that ‘the time…
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Self-control is part of a group of skills called executive function.
If there’s a waiting line, it’s not fully open. We find the first written description of people standing in line in an 1837 book, The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle described what he thought was a strange sight: people standing in an orderly line to buy scarce bread from bakers around Paris. Today, the…
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