Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.

Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.

The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.

I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.