There are as many possible theories of art as there are ways of regarding art; the Greeks regarded it from the moral point of view not because the Greek artist thought in a different way from any other but because their thought was predominantly political, and art, like drainage, undoubtedly performs some function in the state.
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In principle you do not have to adopt new-right values in order to use public choice patterns of argument. (...) However, a majority of public choice writers in fact espouse political values and policies normally associated with conservatism.
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"Radical technophiles like Moravec envision humanity moving to a higher state of being and attaining immortality by merging their minds with computers. Far more than theories of evolution, these techno-utopias represent neo-Cartesian assumptions that mind is substance and body is an accidental trait as well as secular manifestations of the Christian quest for immortality."
Steven Best, Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism
For Hayek social justice is a myth, a search for the impossible. Unlike some public choice theorists, Hayek believes that not even the market rewards merit.
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Public choice theory studies collective, social or non-market decision making. The subject matter of public choice thus includes many aspects of political science, the study of the state, constitutions, collective action, voting procedures, party behavior, bureaucratic behavior, and manipulative behavior. Applying the methods and techniques of neoclassical economics to the study of the subjects is what makes public choice so distinctive.
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Bell’s arguments (Bell, 1964 and Bell, 1971) against local hidden variable theories proceed by means of inequalities; it is noted in (Koç, 1992) that in these arguments Bell does not consider the geometrical (or, algebraic) properties of the quantum mechanical correlation function (for a system of spin-1/2 particles in the singlet state). It is shown in (Koç, 1992) that, due to the geometry (or, algebraic properties) of the quantum mechanical correlation function, Bell’s arguments in (Bell, 1964 and Bell, 1971) are inconclusive. In addition to this, it is asserted in (Koç, forthcoming) that Wigner’s argument (Wigner, 1970) against local hidden variable theories is similarly inconclusive because of the geometrical (or, algebraic) properties of the quantum mechanical probability functions (for a system of spin-1/2 particles in the singlet state).
Bell, J. S. ‘‘On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox’’, Physics 1 (1964): 195.
Bell, J. S. ‘‘Introduction to the Hidden Variable Question’’ in B. d’Espagnat, ed., Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Academic Press, 1971.
Koç, Y., ‘‘The Local Expectation Value Function and Bell’s Inequalities’’, Il Nuovo Cimento 107B (1992): 961-971.
Koç, Y. , ‘‘Wigner’s Inequality, Quantum Mechanical Probability Functions and Hidden Variable Theories’’ forthcoming in Il Nuovo Cimento B.
Wigner, E. P., ‘‘On Hidden Variables and Quantum Mechanical Probabilities’’, Amer. J. Phys. 38 (1970): 1005-1009.
Durkheim finds the origin of the idea of the sacred in the periodic clan gatherings designed to maintain the solidarity of the clan. These gatherings replaced normal periods of dispersed individualistic economic activities, and were characterized by moments of intensified emotion and "collective effervescence." When transported from profane to sacred existence at these gatherings, the clan sought an explanation for their altered and elevated state. The gathering of the clan is the real cause, but too complex for the primitive mind to comprehend. So the clansman looks about and sees the symbols of the clan surrounding him and assigns the cause for his altered state to these objects. He supposes that the mana flows from the graven image of the clan totem, rather than from the collectivity of the clan itself.
