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Hello and welcome to my blog collection! Most pieces are a short 10-minute read, although I am experimenting with many different styles (research papers, op-eds, comics, etc). Hope you enjoy the posts and do remember to leave comments :)
Decolonial Projects: Fanon’s Critique of the Western Models of Political Transformation
Written on 20th April 2024 Preamble: Another one of my essays for the same module - and gosh I love writing about Fanon. Encountered...
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Jun 1, 2024
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Reading Review: Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, pp. 10-112
Rebecca SE Tan 8 February 2024 *I think I am going to start writing random preambles for my essays for some context. This piece was...
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Feb 12, 2024
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Reading Review: Carl Schmitt. The Concept of the Political, pp. 19-79
Rebecca SE Tan 1 Feb 2024 Preamble: This was also written for an assignment; to be honest when I was reading Schmitt I was so horrified?...
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Feb 12, 2024
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Violent Resistance: On Necessity and Morality
Rebecca SE Tan 25 December 2022 Introduction Violent resistance characterises our news today – from Iran to Hong Kong to Bolivia and...
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Dec 26, 2022
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Money: The Root of Unnatural Accumulation
Rebecca SE Tan Originally written on 19 November 2020, on how the invention of money has overcame Locke's limits on natural rights to...
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Dec 19, 2022
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Preventing Political Absolutism: Locke's Separation of Powers
Rebecca SE Tan Originally written on 7 October 2020 Posted on 7 December 2022 Reposting yet another essay from two years ago!! In this...
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Dec 7, 2022
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Hindu Tradition of Political Thought: Gandhi's Innovations & Subversions
Rebecca SE Tan 19 November 2022 Author's Note: This essay was first written on 19 November 2020 for a school paper, but I thought it'd be...
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Nov 19, 2022
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TIL: Is Violence Ever Legitimate?
Rebecca SE Tan 18 November 2022 In political theory class, we discussed whether violence is ever legitimate in specific situations,...
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Nov 19, 2022
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Positive Liberty: An Imposition on our Freedoms?
Rebecca SE Tan 29 October 2022 Introduction What is positive liberty? As first defined by Isaiah Berlin, it is the absence of internal...
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Oct 30, 2022
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TIL: Values as a Social Construct?
Rebecca SE Tan 20 October 2022 How are our values and desires formed? This question is tackled by Nancy Hirschmann in her book “The...
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Oct 21, 2022
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TIL: Polity VS Democracy
Rebecca SE Tan 6 October 2022 I went for a lecture on political theory today, and I just thought I'd share some of my thoughts! While the...
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Oct 6, 2022
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Political Theory: the Will of All or the General Will?
Rebecca SE Tan 23 July 2022 We extol democracies for upholding the "will" of the people. But what "will" are we aiming for - the Will of...
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Jul 23, 2022
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V for Vendetta: State Control V Individual Liberties
Rebecca SE Tan 22 July 2022 “Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason...
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Jul 22, 2022
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