The empty side of power
"A theoretical investigation into the nature of power and how it is communicated would seem to be redundant in face of the sciences and their explanations of this phenomenon. Scientists in military organizations are in a position to count the weapons, industrial capacity, psychological readines...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
[2024]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Contemporary cultural studies
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A theoretical investigation into the nature of power and how it is communicated would seem to be redundant in face of the sciences and their explanations of this phenomenon. Scientists in military organizations are in a position to count the weapons, industrial capacity, psychological readiness, intelligence, allies, etc., of global nations, and on the basis of the relative strengths of each, to offer strategies for action. Today, such calculations extend to the psychological studies of the "will" to fight against overwhelming odds. Of course, such studies depend on questions answered by fighters of diverse countries, groups, and beliefs, resulting in quantifiable "data" to be used for training purposes. Philosophy, then, would seem to lack an object of discussion. At best, it could help clarify some issues; at worst, it should be controlled from outside in the name of some presumed interests. We could recall the great debates concerning justice by classical thinkers such as Plato (1974), only to discover that, when it came to the question of power, Thrasymachus announced that all decisions of justice depend on those who have power-case closed. Thus, if philosophy is relevant, it could be of practical service in the battle for the minds of populations by constructing some ideological justification for the use of power. A specific philosophy could be designed to envelope some political expediency in an aura of truth. The obvious result of such philosophy is a terrorism of thought. Here, philosophy loses its essence-an unconcerned freedom to range and probe, and to constitute itself and its object. This does not mean that philosophy disappears; to the contrary, it enters its most aggressive and virile stage, the stage of inauthenticity and arbitrariness, and serves the "reality" interests of some dogma or world view. In brief, this form of philosophy would become a clever and sophisticated rhetorical strategy to help control the thinking of populations. In turn, this virile stage appears in its cynical form as an instrument that communicates power. This is specifically obvious in the age of science and technology, which have reduced reason to instrumental reason. Our contemporary reality is a narrowed world brought about by science and constituted by technology, with all their possibilities and dangers. The modern globalized world is formed by a growing interdependence between politics, economy, and technology. |
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| Beschreibung: | xxix, 241 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9798891133839 |