And Release Judgement — What judge of art could ever create art? What judge of life could ever create life? Life as Art Despite the limitations society might press on us, life is limitless, creative, and our deepest urge is to express ourselves in our own way and be heard. Our deepest desire is to think of…

Gilles Deleuze and Creative Philosophy — Fulfillment What if life could be continuously fresh and new, light and free? What if even during our most difficult moments we had a light source within, a strength that could help us see beyond the darkness? What if every day we woke up, we could live life in the open…

Constructing Justice in the Deeply Pluralistic Liberal State — The Hypothetical Original Position John Rawls’ original position is a hypothetical procedural mechanism for free and equal citizens to express and debate their views of justice in accordance with practical public reason and rationality. As such, it is the focal point of Rawls’ political constructivism regarding the objectivity and validity of political decisions regarding…

Procedural Fairness and Substantive Justice — John Rawls asserts that citizens are free and equal and the liberal state should be arranged in such a manner that it is fair. Citizens are free qua citizens: All citizens of a liberal state believe they should have an equal claim on the political and social institutions of the…

Freedom, Equality and Fairness — In Political Liberalism, John Rawls set out to defend the liberal political state in light of the deep divisions that might exist between citizens’ private conception of the good. In terms of legitimacy and stability, Rawls outlines the minimum requirements for upholding a liberal political state: A shared public political…

Freedom, Equality and Fairness — Legitimacy In a democratic society, Rawls asserts that the three central ideas of its public political culture are: citizens are free, citizens are equal, and society should be a fair system of cooperation. All liberal political conceptions of justice must at a fundamental level involve an interpretation of the three concepts…

Political Justice — The Place of Political Theory John Rawls’ philosophical thought targets the political. For Rawls, political philosophy is practical: it is aimed at providing ideas that could form the basis for agreement in society, where to not agree could lead to conflict; and it assists with citizens’ understanding of, and orientation in, their social world. Political…

Introducing Deleuze and Politics — O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t. — William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I To live a fulfilling life we require a vision for how we can think about life and its possibilities…

Exploring Context in Deleuze’s Philosophy — Over the last 20 articles or so, I have attempted to put Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in context: Deleuze is experience over authority. He is the end of meta-narratives, great unifying stories about all of life, consuming life. And yet a philosophy of difference is a story; but it is an…