In deze scriptie wordt betoogd dat Nietzsche niet zoals de gangbare lezing stelt het ressentiment volledig afwijst, daarentegen enkel de christelijk-ascetische en destructieve omgang met ressentiment. In hoofdstuk I. worden ...

In this article, I take issue with proposals that advocate overcoming the crisis of political representation by democratizing structures of representation as to include the people in processes of decision-making. These ...

This thesis is an evaluation of Herbert Marcuse's intellectual framework from One-Dimensional Man- and in particular the concept of the 'Happy Consciousness' - in the light of 60 year of global developments. By using two ...

There is currently a great variety of sexual practices and a diversity of attitudes towards sexual morality in society. The issue of human sexuality, with special reference to homosexuality, remain unresolved and controversial ...

In dit artikel behandel ik het enactivisme zoals bepleit door Evan Thompson. Hij combineert het enactivisme enerzijds met de door Humberto Maturana en Francisco Varela ontwikkelde theorie van autopoiesis, en anderzijds met ...

In this thesis I describe how the Kurdish autonomous region in Syria, which is based on the ideology of democratic confederalism, functions in practise. Democratic confederalism has the potential to create a free, democratic ...

The late Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler both assert that contemporary technics poses a threat to human existence as well as being in general. The present paper asks, in the face of this threat, how am I to be in order to ...

In this paper, the author discusses Jürgen Habermas’s new thought experiment about the place of religion in the public sphere. The thought experiment is placed in the debate about the place of religion in the public ...

The prospect of genetic manipulation confronts us with fundamental questions. While many authors confront the ethical side of these questions, there is in a sense a prior ontological question that must be asked, which is ...