My favourite subject this semester

Hello classmates,

My favourite subject this semester is by far political philosophy.

The classes of the professor Dario Montero were really good, he is a really pedagogical teacher. His lessons consists in the explanation of the political philosophers, their arguments and the historical context that led them to think in the way they were thinking.

We talk about the political philosophy of Platon and Aristotle, the classics.
Then we talk about the modern political philosophers, starting for Descartes, then the contractualists Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, and we finish with the german romanticism, they answer and critique the modern philosophers. We studied the philosophy of Herder, Kant, Schiller and Hegel.

I think my interest of political philosophy is because it's pretty interesting the discussion of how we should organizate as a society, or as a global society, even as a species. Is a fascinating subject because it comprehends ethics, anthropology, ontology, teleology even aesthetics. Also is interesting because a political philosopher has to critique, attack other points of views and defend other one. There's a lot of political philosophers I want to read, like MacIntyre, Rorty, Berlin or the book of Honneth and Fraser !

Nautilus

Hey mates, i want to introduce you a really good science magazine, that i've found by accident, in fact, i can't remember exactly how i get to it, I think it is something that just happen on the internet.

Nautilus is an online and print magazine, it melts in its publications science, culture and philosophy. Every month the magazine chooses an issue, and every thursday they publish chapters, they offer multiple disciplines to develop his publications.

I have read about artificial intelligence, sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and so on. I think everyone can find something interesting on nautilus. I read it because it's interesting but also inspiring to read investigations and how they investigate.

If i should recommend nautilus, I think, because of its wide themes, and because is easy to find sources or inspiration by reading the articles.

One of the best publications that i have read on nautilus is "homo narrativus and the trouble with fame", the investigators argue that fame or popularity isn't always related to quality, somethings are popular because they are popular. They have find that popularity has to do in some cases more influence of the casuality, even chaos theory than quality of things. They say that if history is run again, we will got other history, there is no fate, just history of fate.