“I might disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
1 We believe in constructive, critical, creative, collaborative, compassionate disagreement, dialogue, and discourse for
understanding
2 We have a lack of.
c We made this.
Beyond the philosopher king - to the philosopher citizen
The Syllogist to host deliberative dialogue with Deliberative Polling®.
NEWS
01
Democratize Discourse
"I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death your right to say it."
The pursuit of rationality and the freedom of speech are both the cornerstone and touchstone of democracy.
The Zeitgeist is one of polarization in the echo chamber -- let's jump out of the box.
The time is one of uncertainty -- meta-ethicaly, ethically, and epistemologically. What is certain is that, when unsure, listen to both sides of the argument. This is the way from uncertainty to certainty.
Our Mission
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Depoliticizing Debate
We believe that controversial issues should be taken apolitically, that they are first questions of ethics and meta-ethics.
03
Ridding Rhetoric
The simplist route of exercising the human intellect is syllogism -- two premises that inheres one conclusion. Getting rid of rhetoric is not to get rid of the human emotion, but instead allows us to see with minimal distraction the argument, and therefore recognize that what's behind these issues are choices of values.
9 in 10 voters regard people whose politics differ from theirs as unreasonable.
Who is the Syllogist?
Public Reason, Phil for All
Debate, De-Policized
Discourse, Democratized.
"A basic feature of democracy is the fact of reasonable pluralism—the fact that a plurality of conflicting reasonable comprehensive doctrines, religious, philosophical, and moral, is the normal result of its culture of free institutions." (Rawls, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited)
mo·dus vi·ven·di: To co-exist peacefully, as a way of living
/ˈmōdəs vəˈvendē,ˈmōdəs vəˈvenˌdī/
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