Viable political theory for governing in the 21st century: Aristotle, Heidegger, Nietzsche, & McLuhan + AI & genetics. In essence, there is no “humanity” and virtue derives from the polis managed through tech-media, grounded in commonsense (Heidegger).
The polis is part of decentralised constellation. Small enough to generate virtue and rootedness and also capitalise on the nature of the new technologies. These thinkers actually dovetail with scientific advance, unlike, say, Rawls or Marx.
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They could be used to construct a virtue ethics in keeping with what Darwin has taught us, while not reducing human experience to a crude material and technocratic experience devoid of meaning.
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