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Even if, purely hypothetically, the deficiency of marketized institutions as regards justice could be made good through fair distribution at a basic level, this would not even touch upon, let alone answer, the question of whether there are goods that should not be marketized—irrespective of the distribution conditions. The issue here is what repercussions understanding certain goods as commodities and treating them in accordance with economic efficiency has for our understanding of ourselves as individuals and as a society and for the shape and functioning of our social practices.
Critique of Forms of Life
Rahel Jaeggi;Ciaran Cronin
There comes a point in the history of a nation where stupidity is indistinguishable from wickedness. That's where we are now.
Tweets From Philip Pullman
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Following Jürgen Habermas and echoing Wilber, I have argued that __one of the defining aspects of our postmodern culture is its lack of meta-theory and meta-narrative, and the related inability of individuals to build universalized and historicized self-understandings.__ According to this line of thought, it is no longer the singular ideological meta-narrative of modernity that inhibits the moral evolution of the species (such as Capitalism, Communists, and the Church, etc.). It is now the absence of any explicitly shared meta-narrative or meta-theory that inhibits enlightenment. Behind the polyvocal pastiche of our postmodern geo-historical moment, meta-theories and meta-narratives exist in abundance; they have simply been forced underground, __As Bhaskar demonstrated in his ideology critique of positivism, one of the most powerful things a meta-theory can do is to convince the world it does not exist, or more typically, that there is simply no alternative.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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