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http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com

PAP stands for politics, art and philosophy. Art and philosophy are discussed to the extent that they are political. Politics, in turn, is limited to issues of human rights and democracy, which is wide enough to encompass most if not all important political topics.

• Added on: Apr 10th, 2008
• Country: Belgium
• Language: English

• Author: filip spagnoli
• Listed in: Political Activism Independent
• Tags: politics philosophy human rights democracy justice political theory

Recent Posts

• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (15): Prayer is the Best Cure

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 07:23 in religion, health, prayer, horror, cure, absurd, sickness, human rights violations, most absurd human rights violations

  At the deathbed, 1940, by Sámal Joensen Mikines (source) The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of undiagnosed diabetes as the family prayed for her to get better testified Tuesday that she believes sickness is caused by sin and can be cured by ...

• Moral Dilemma (6): Involuntary Organ Donor

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 02:13 in health, philosophy, morality, ethics, organ harvesting, moral dilemmas, moral dilemma, organ trade

  A transplant surgeon has five patients, each in need of a different organ, each of whom will die without that organ. Unfortunately, there are no organs available to perform any of these five transplant operations. A friend of the doctor has the five...

• Richard Rorty on Human Rights and Sympathy

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 00:55 in art, books, philosophy, Emotions, human rights, morality, equality, humanity, slavery, sympathy, sentimental, caring

  Richard Rorty (source) Richard Rorty has an interesting take on human rights. If we want universal acceptance of and respect for human rights, we shouldn’t try to argue about it. We shouldn’t attempt to work out rational justifications ...

• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (14): Arrested for Excessively Noisy Sex

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 00:51 in sex, Privacy, UK, law, 1984, absurd, orwell, asbo, human rights violations, anti-social behavior, loud sex, arbitrary arrest

  (source) Via Reason.com: The bizarre and terrifying situation where a woman has been arrested for having sex too loudly. In modern-day Britain, even the decibels of our sexual moaning can become the subject of a police investigation. At the end of A...

• Human Rights Ads (31): HIV/AIDS

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 00:47 in health, Advertising, ad, hiv, aids, benetton, advert, human rights ads, human rights ad

  (source) More on HIV/AIDS and human rights here. More human rights ads here. Posted in health, human rights ads Tagged: ad, advert, advertising, aids, benetton, HIV, human rights ad ...

• Political Graffiti (73): Religious War

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 00:44 in religion, politics, war, pope, religious war, political graffiti

  More on religious war here and here. More political graffiti here. Posted in political graffiti, religion, war Tagged: political graffiti, politics, pope, religion, religious war, war ...

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