Many philosophers think that, necessarily, any material objects have a fusion (let’s call that doctrine “Universalism”). In this paper I point out a couple of strange consequences of Universalism and related doctrines, and suggest that they are strange enough to constitute a powerful argument against those views. By “thing” I mean material thing. We all believe that there actually are many more...

Social-democratic parties face a dilemma between the universalist ethos of their socialist tradition and nationalism that they share with other political actors state where act. In this paper, we examine comparatively position Spanish party Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) Catalan Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) on three debates pertains to link welfare identity in Spain. We sho...

ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. this commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the national basketball association (nba) example as a point ...

This paper discusses the actual relevance and historical origins or ‘competition universalism’. In economics, competition is conceptualized as a nearly ubiquitous element of societies, or, at least, used to study wide array social political relations, including between firms for market shares, individuals prestige, countries resources, athletes victory, politicians influence. trend towards univ...