Heidegger/Skepticism aff

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• Technology has come to occupy democracy’s once open center, destroying the unique freedom and instead foreclosing certain ideas without genuine consideration.

  Dennis J. Schmidt 2008 (“Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, 228–243) Schmidt is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

   

  Incomplete and impossible though […] under the regime of technology.

   

   

  Democracy is a fundamentally fluid concept – it is defined by its very lack of definition, only that the majority rules.  This requires a genuinely free and open space to discuss all ideas.

  Dennis J. Schmidt 2008 (“Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, 228–243) Schmidt is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

   

  The fifth century BCE was the […] indeed everyone must count equally.

   

   

  Thus we accept that anything may be true. (Different plan text this round)

   

   

  Once we fully open our minds, we see that all claims to knowledge beg the question

  Markus Lammenranta 08 (“The Pyrrhonian Problematic,” in The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism, p. 13-14) Lammenranta is professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

   

  The considerations that Sextus […] against the possibility of justified beliefs.

   

   

  The recognition of the equal validity of all beliefs couples itself with action and produces the democratic ideal. This solves for America’s unique stagnation.

  David Hiley 2006 (“Doubt and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship,” Cambridge University Press, p. 61-71) Hiley is a professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire

   

  So far I have argued […]  American culture, it would be now.

   

   

  Dogmatic assumptions in western democracies result in attempts to force preconceived, cookie-cutter democracies on other countries.  Breaking free of this builds effective democracies across the globe.

  Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 11 (“Challenges to Building Sustainable Democracies: Lessons from the Margins,” in Values, Religions and Education in Changing Societies, 2011, Part 1, 23-27, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9628-9_3) Hoppers is the South African Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa

   

   1 The Dilemmas in the Demands of […] countries learn from each other?

   

   

  Uniquely true with the Arab Spring

  Mariano Arias 2011 (“Arab Revolution versus Western Democracy?” http://www.revistadefilosofia.com/38-13.pdf, May 2011) Arias is a professor of Urban Design at Anahuac University.

   

  4) Western technological progress has  […] Quran itself consecrates private property”.

   

   

  This discussion of modernism can’t just be skipped – we have to go through nihilism and experience all preferences and beliefs being arbitrary before we can have genuine values.

  Mitchell Heisman 2010 (The Suicide Note: An Experiment in Nihilism, BA in Psychology from U of Albany, written in consultation with professors Dershowitz and Pinker of Harvard University)

   

  The following is an experiment [...] an expression of myth, bias…error.

   

   

  Modernist drives for perfect security turns life into a standing reserve that necessitates endless warfare.

  Mitchell 5 [Andrew J. Mitchell, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University, "Heidegger and Terrorism," Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 181-218]

   

  There can be no security. If being is […] that would be nationally distinct from another.

   

   

  Good is not good enough –ignoring skeptical questions for being too difficult to answer makes for the worst kinds of arrogance.

  Peter Suber 96 (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/skept.htm) Suber was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 20 years

   

  But the skeptic has a legitimate […] of the moral consequences of credulity.

   

   

  Having experienced a skeptical attitude is the best way to teach good decision-making skills.

  Peter Suber 96 (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/skept.htm) Suber was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 20 years

   

  Some commentators who think skepticism […] clear head and unbiased judgment.

  
  

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Skepticism aff

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• Democracy requires a genuinely free and open space to enable a plurality of perspectives and responsive institutions.  Without this, democracy devolves into a tyranny of the majority.

  Dennis J. Schmidt 2008 (“Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, 228–243) Schmidt is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

   

  The fifth century BCE was […] everyone must count equally.

   

   

  Western society has lost that space and is now in a state of post-democracy.  Elites manipulate public opinion, and genuine difference is vanishing.

  Colin Crouch 2011 (“Post-Democracy,” Polity Press, Cambridge, p. 19-21) Crouch is an emeritus professor of Comparative Social Institutions at the European University Institute.

  If we have only two […] manipulated, passive, rare participants.

   

   

  Thus we accept that anything may be true.

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  We skeptically affirm that the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.

   

   

  Once we fully open our minds, we see that all claims to knowledge are either illogical or arbitrary

  Markus Lammenranta 08 (“The Pyrrhonian Problematic,” in The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism, p. 13-14) Lammenranta is professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

   

  The considerations that Sextus […] the possibility of justified beliefs.

   

   

   

  The recognition of the equal validity of all beliefs couples itself with action and produces the democratic ideal. This solves for America’s unique stagnation.

  David Hiley 2006 (“Doubt and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship,” Cambridge University Press, p. 61-71) Hiley is a professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire

   

  So far I have argued that doubt […] culture, it would be now.

   

   

  Becoming a skeptic is not a one-time event, it is the lived ability to engage in dialectic without any directed ends or goals

  Harald Thorsrud 2003 (“Is the Examined Life Worth Living? A Pyrrhonian Alternative,” Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Vol. 36, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 229-249) Thorsrud is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Agnes Scott college.

   

  As Sextus describes it, Pyrrhonism […] the proper intellectual response, etc.

   

   

  Dogmatic assumptions in western democracies result in attempts to force preconceived, cookie-cutter democracies on other countries.  Breaking free of this builds effective democracies across the globe.

  Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 11 (“Challenges to Building Sustainable Democracies: Lessons from the Margins,” in Values, Religions and Education in Changing Societies, 2011, Part 1, 23-27, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9628-9_3) Hoppers is the South African Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa

   

   1 The Dilemmas in the Demands of […] two countries learn from each other?

   

   

  Uniquely true with the Arab Spring

  Mariano Arias 2011 (“Arab Revolution versus Western Democracy?” http://www.revistadefilosofia.com/38-13.pdf, May 2011, translated by Leann Westin and Professor Irma Alarcon of the Wake Forest Department of Romance Languages) Arias is a professor of Urban Design at Anahuac University.

   

  4) The Western technological advance […] consecrates owning private property.”

   

   

  Only suspending beliefs can solve the root cause of all suffering

  Diego E. Machuca 06 (“The Pyrrhonist’s Ataraxia and Philanthropia,” Ancient Philosophy, p. 111-139, accessed 3/30/11, http://philpapers.org/archive/MACTPA-6.1.pdf) Machuca holds a PhD in Philosophy from Buenos Aires University and is an assistant professor of philosophy at El Salvador University.

   

  Sextus conducts his exposition with […] nothing but unhappiness (AD v 120-

   

  A global spillover is possible – the universality of suffering ensures receptiveness to skepticism.

  Harald Thorsrud 2003 (“Is the Examined Life Worth Living? A Pyrrhonian Alternative”, Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Vol. 36, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 229-249)  Thorsrud is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Agnes Scott University.

   

  Even though ordinary people may […] having any fresh misfortune to deal with. 

  Skepticism is the best way to teach good decision-making skills.

  Peter Suber 96 (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/skept.htm) Suber was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 20 years

   

  Some commentators who think […] clear head and unbiased judgment.

   

   

  Good is not good enough –ignoring skeptical questions for being too difficult to answer causes the worst arrogance.

  Peter Suber 96 (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/skept.htm) Suber was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 20 years

   

  But the skeptic has a legitimate […] consequences of credulity.

   

  
  
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