In the discussions of ideological a claim shared in the debate is that you can derive from first principles the positions on the specific issues that we have to solve. To illustrate and criticize this idea, in this entry we will focus on the work of Nozick, in Anarchy, State and Utopia, in the distant […]
A brief argument about the incompleteness of liberalism
1. Liberalism can be understood as a social doctrine: The prohibition of forcing another person to perform an action. 1.1 Note that we are defining liberalism from the perspective of the other. If you can raise that is equivalent formally to the egocentric perspective (‘no one I can bind anything’), it is more interesting for […]
Variations of Hell. Dante, Levi and Auschwitz
the good, The bad and Tironi
A couple of recent columns by Eugenio Tironi, the first titled Good and the second Bad, have generated some controversy. Or at least have made it in the list Chilesoc, to which such columns was taken out of his lethargy usual. On several occasions in this blog I have made several criticisms of the writings […]
The place of autonomy in the world of work.
Behind the self-employment we find ourselves, so to speak, with the possibilities and limitations of autonomy as a space in the world of contemporary labour in Chile (but not only in our country). Three reflections are necessary to understand that space: The first is that autonomy, which is crucial for its own account, is not […]
The irritation that produced Hegel. A few notes in the middle of reading The Science of Logic
One of the common reactions if one is engaged in reading Hegel is that of irritation. Between the critical famous is that of Schopenhauer (the Foundations of Morality: ‘pseudo-philosophy that cripples the mind, smothering all thought real’) and the Popper (referring to Fichte and Hegel in The Open Society: ‘such clowns are taken seriously’). The […]
On the misuses of significance tests
To ask whether a difference is statistically significant is one of the most common and recurring of the analysis in many fields, and in particular in sociology. Let us think in the discussions on whether the differences between the results of the surveys are significant. Now, for several years have developed various criticisms of the […]
A brief note about the argument public, for the purpose of discussion of the abortion law.
Interventions of various mps (by some, not all) against the decriminalization of abortion were collected and disseminated with the objective of making fun of them. For those who gathered and disseminated it was clear that the mere enunciation of such opinions was reason enough for ridicule. They were opinions that were his own parody. At […]
A note on the reflexivity of action
Among the habits of thought normal to sociologists, those statements that we assume certain without thinking too much, is to associate the agency with the plan, reflect, evaluate alternatives, etc., The action that does not follow these parameters, it is thought of as automatic, almost as if it’s not really action. The comment of Weber […]
A Schema of Stages of Universal History
Among the innumerable projects on which to work from time to time, is write a Universal Story of the Social Life. The focus of it is that not until now I’ve thought of a better name it as ‘social technologies’: a history of the development of all those forms (institutions, structures, practices, beliefs) that we’ve […]