KNOWLEDGE IN THE MODERN AGE: MY STORY
So what is knowledge? The Oxford Dictionary defines knowledge as the sum of what is known. But much more than that, we often have been told that knowledge is power. And I find that to be so true because I felt truly powerless at one point in my life. You see I was a graduate […]
WHAT IS HUMAN PROGRESS?
They say, we live in an age of efficiency and convenience, gone were the days of small town hardships as we now live global lives, in sprawling modern metropolises with large shiny skyscrapers towering over us; fancy jobs at multinational companies enabling us to grow rich; to buy and dress ourselve
The MIRROR OF TRUTH: KNOWLEDGE IN DEMOCRATIC STATES
Introduction: Knowledge and The State Great tensions and conflicts have always pervaded the relationship between scientific-knowledge/expertise and the state. Precedents of such strain are traceable countlessly throughout recorded-history; perhaps first and most prominently witnessed in the executio
LEX MERCATORIA: CAN LAWS EXIST WITHOUT THE STATE?
As a theory, the Lex Mercatoria is not only perplexing in its’ suggestions but entirely controversial in its’ acceptance; of which, would mean the absolute repudiation of established legal dogma and understanding. Specifically, it centers around the existence of an ‘autonomous legal system’
A Bourgeois creature: Thoughts ON the state in capitalist societies
In the following discourse, an attempt will be made to critically examine the nature of the State in Western societies that are politically operated under a system of ‘liberal(representative) democracy’ and economically grounded in ‘capitalism’. This examination, is based on and inspired fro