Talk:Living Together/Table of content
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What about the spritual/religious aspect? --Nad 12:48, 25 Nov 2006 (NZDT)
- What excactly do you mean? do you mean if religion and spirituality in general will have a place in the paper or do you have something specific in mind? Thx for setting the links!--Flower 13:09, 25 Nov 2006 (NZDT)
Wikipedia's Living Together article redirects to Cohabitation
I've trouble to figure out what are the actual philosophical foundations of our society? any ideas?-- Flower 13:37, 16 Nov 2006 (NZDT)
- This is a confusing issue because our societies "officially" have quite good philosophical foundations, see the constitution of the U.S. but in practise due to media propaganda and the education system it reduces down to simple competitiveness and consumption. It is difficult to ignore the issue of power here, in that those who are powerful will attempt to instil in the populace a philosophy which reinforces their power. I believe Michel Foucault has done some good work on power relations in society.
- Overall, the philosophy of our society (btw., what does "our society" mean?) would be almost identical with the ideas promoted by the "Chicago school" of economics. The values of a competitive, consumption-focussed market system have replaced civic values to do with being a good citizen, etc. Also check out the work by Clare graves on spiral dynamics to compare the various levels of development in society, since society is not a uniform block which has the same values, rather there are different levels, which are generally structured from egotistical and impulsive to more holistic and inclusive.--Milan 13:21, 16 Nov 2006 (NZDT)
Thx for the input will check it out. i think i might actually think a bit further back and might get into aristoteles and plato, cause if i remember right they've written stuff we later used to set up our societies. regarding the q what i mean by 'our society' i only have a feeling for it right now, but im aware that i need to define this at some stage. so im afraid u gotta wait with that:)--Flower 13:37, 16 Nov 2006 (NZDT)
