HALL 4

thematic suggestions for

 

« PRAGMATISM »

 

 

 

 

  • business bestsellers & self-help books: the popularization of (un-systematized) ethics

  • andromeda's co-executive producer illustrates the nietzschean ethics

  • movies, novels & philosophy textbooks: implicit (emotional) vs. explicit (rational) lessons in ethics

  • normative statements: why they are conditional

  • deontological ethics: “you are ethical” usually means, “you are good for me

  • limbic values: a short introduction to evolutionary psychology

  • two valid modes of value acquisition: the policial and the economic mode (franz oppenheimer)

  • persuasion or coercion? the importance of reciever-iq

  • micropolitics: game theory and the prudent predator

  • reputation: why “irrationally altruist” commitments are rational

  • gaining credibility by reducing complexity for the crow(d)s -- you better act dumb!

  • statistical measurement and the operationalization of virtues

  • volition in the context of justce: the irrelevance of a philosophical fetish

  • eugenics for everybody: the stupidity of "racism"

  • a critique of anton szandor lavey’s satanic bible

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