Previously, divisions of society were mended and band-aided by communal meeting areas: Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and other religious […]
Author: Joshua Krook
This article discusses the role of the corporate mega-firm in shaping the dreams, aspirations, and ambitions of Australian […]
An AI lawyer is doing legal research in the US, a robot is laying bricks in Japan and […]
It’s May 26, 2016 and Donald J. Trump attends a presidential rally in Bismarck, North Dakota. “We’re going […]
The following is a review of my book by Edwin Montoya Zorrila from the blog, Notes From The […]
Gertrude Stein originally called those who returned from World War I a ‘lost generation’, disoriented, wandering directionless through […]
‘The Employer’s Voice’ Shaping Graduate Attributes: In the early 1990s, Australian universities were placed under increasing pressure from […]
Chapter 1: The Problem Since the early 2000s there have been warning signs of the ‘health of [Australia’s] […]
In Political Liberalism, John Rawls argues that, “political power is always coercive power backed by the government’s use of sanctions, for government alone has authority to use force in upholding its laws” (Rawls 1993, p. 136).[i] In saying as much, Rawls is echoing a commonly held belief: that the state has the power to coerce its citizens, and this coercion prevents citizens from breaking the law. In most modern states, citizens are routinely threatened with arrest and incarceration if they do not abide by the state’s legal system. The language of “authority” is often used to justify this coercive action (Goffman 1982; Morris 2004, p. 196; Weber 1947).[ii]
In 1974, the philosopher Robert Nozick came up with the idea of an ‘experience machine’, a thought experiment […]