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Re: Illegal aliens are necessary because Democrats are too ignorant to work
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Mayorkas
Jan 25, 2024, 4:26:01 PMJan 25
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On 15 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some
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> Most Democrats can't read or write.
Truth versus ignorance in democratic politics: An existentialist
perspective on the democratic promise of political freedom
Existentialist philosophy offers an understanding of how trying to
eliminate ambiguities that inevitably mark the human condition only
seemingly leads to freedom. This existentialist outlook can also serve to
shed light on how democratic politics may similarly show tendencies which
aim at overcoming immanent tensions. Such tendencies in democratic
politics can be clarified using Sartre’s notion of ignorance – and truth
as its counterpart. His concept of ignorance goes beyond merely facts or
knowledge and refers to a mode of being. It expresses a subject’s desire
to avoid, rather than confront, resistances stemming from the world. Based
on a distinction of different forms in which this orientation can manifest
itself, this article shows how democratic politics, too, can be threatened
by ignorance as a way of doing politics. This ignorance comes in different
guises which all express a desire to eliminate tensions that democratic
politics cannot overcome without undermining itself.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00436-y
news:suhdnu$c5u$2...@dont-email.me:
> Most Democrats can't read or write.
Truth versus ignorance in democratic politics: An existentialist
perspective on the democratic promise of political freedom
Existentialist philosophy offers an understanding of how trying to
eliminate ambiguities that inevitably mark the human condition only
seemingly leads to freedom. This existentialist outlook can also serve to
shed light on how democratic politics may similarly show tendencies which
aim at overcoming immanent tensions. Such tendencies in democratic
politics can be clarified using Sartre’s notion of ignorance – and truth
as its counterpart. His concept of ignorance goes beyond merely facts or
knowledge and refers to a mode of being. It expresses a subject’s desire
to avoid, rather than confront, resistances stemming from the world. Based
on a distinction of different forms in which this orientation can manifest
itself, this article shows how democratic politics, too, can be threatened
by ignorance as a way of doing politics. This ignorance comes in different
guises which all express a desire to eliminate tensions that democratic
politics cannot overcome without undermining itself.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00436-y
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