First Quarter 2009 Blog Story Forecast- 'Contradictions in the Darwin/Hobbes Position' & Other Pieces...

First Quarter 2009 blog forecast...Here are a few of the story pieces that are to be posted on this blog over the next few months....

1) The true Magic Realism- the superabundant(as Paul Ricoeur terms it) calculus of human relationship and interaction.

2)Historical addendum on the unstated enormous impact of the development of both: A) the printing press, and B) the musket/rifle, that combined in the change of the balance of power between the government and the individual, demonstrated in the history of political events and ideas from 1700 to 1865.(period ends because of the development of the Gatling gun).

Part 2- C) In conjunction with the impact of the developments of the printing press and the musket/rifle, there was also the codification in law by the 2nd amendment of the right of the individual to bear arms that- at that time- had real and significant impact on the outcome of military battle. This in effect officially militarized the American household and American citizenship both in a material sense and in a psychological sense in ways that have no equivalent to life as we know it in the United States today.

What we can call the military character of United States citizenship from 1776 onward was transformed then into a more benign form only after the development of the Gatling gun, the ending of individual guerilla insurrection(indicated in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' and 'The Assassination of Jesse James') and the restoration of order extended in the reconstruction period after the end of the Civil War in 1865, and in the reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

As every man with a gun before 1865 literally had the power to make war, it gives a different and concrete connotation to the phrase (of the French Revolution) that "every man was a king".

3) Contradictions in the Darwin/Hobbes position of what is known on this blog as Philosophy Case #1- Darwin/Hobbes vs. Kant/St. Paul: 1) False- Heidegger conference attendees claim that the plaintiff system of law equals aggression/vengeance, 2) Sophie's Choice result merely confirms Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs- when properly configured, and contradicts character flaw claim

4) Why are the Philosophical Positions of the Revolutionary War era group of founding American figures & Abraham Lincoln not taught as a bachelors degree core curriculum class of American Political Philosophy in American Universities?

5) Disagreement with S. Zizek's Interpretation in 'Tarrying with the Negative' of the Kantian formation of Radical Evil as evidence for the primacy of "the negative" in human life.

6) (maybe), Comments on poorly constructed and false Philosophical themes in the movies 'Seven', 'The Bourne Identity', 'The Hunted' & Other movies.