Emanuela A. Matei

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What is your opinion on privacy and social media?

The protection of private life is essential since a possible injury might be impossible to repair. The video gives a larger view of the invasion of private life caused by social media with a...

09 September 2013 1,848 8 View

"The one you are looking for is the one who is looking." What is the meaning of this quote?

Life can be seen as an act of research. While researching into the world, we start to configure who we are. Looking for someone else, discovering yourself in a unattainable search. Is it waste of...

08 August 2013 4,953 13 View

What is the driver fueling your inspiration and determination to write a book?

It would be interesting to know what is the driver that incites people to write books or even articles in academic journals. I don't exclude the possibility of several co-existing reasons, but one...

06 June 2013 1,102 45 View

A dictatorship of the Good Intentions, is it more harmful than a dictatorship of the evil or amoral (Machiavellian) intentions?

Machiavelli has coined the expression 'A good end justifies every means' suggesting that a dictatorship of the GOOD can be an acceptable manner to attain a noble goal. Today we don't have this...

03 March 2013 1,215 4 View

The mathematics of elections should deserve a serious reconsideration. What do you think?

I do not make a secret from the fact that I am a supporter of direct democracy and that until now only Switzerland has actually succeeded to implement it. However Switzerland is a small country as...

11 November 2012 4,032 3 View

Is there a relation of indirect proportionality between the scientist's popularity and his/er intellectual rigour or a risk to decay into triviality?

I will give you first a glimpse into the background of this question. The discussion started as a divergent branch of another question related to RG score. It is nothing wrong about being popular...

11 November 2012 6,612 11 View

Is the global financial crisis, whereby I include the Eurozone crisis, a category of crisis of capitalism?

The capitalism implies the periodical occurrence of critical phases, crises that can have a higher or a lower amplitude and a longer or shorter duration. Capitalism can be characterized as a...

11 November 2012 7,458 6 View

The duality body & mind is flawed, body in the mind is the new subject of study. Is the perception of the self nothing more than an illusion?

The feeling of body ownership is a fundamental aspect of self-consciousness. However this feeling is not exactly reliable. Threatening a rubber hand that you feel is yours elicits a cortical...

09 September 2012 955 11 View

Ehrlich (1862 –1922) envisioned that state-law is only a phase in the dialectics of law as social phenomenon. What can be the next phase in your view?

Sociology of law is a rather new discipline. A very important figure for the study of sociology of law is Eugen Ehrlich who claims that ‘the centre of gravity of legal development lies not in...

08 August 2012 8,666 3 View

What is your approach to the philosophical idea of 'negative growth'?

I have just proposed to the economists and econometricians to study the notion of 'décroissance' translated as ungrowth or in better words negative growth. Many philosophers have studied the...

08 August 2012 3,259 3 View

What is the value of 'work'? Is there any difference between 'live' and 'work'?

I think therefore I exist as opposed to I consume therefore I exist. Work? Why? is the title of the video in French (the link below) 'Brève critique sur la société travailliste actuelle....

08 August 2012 7,414 13 View

Can the 'free will' ever be conciliated with the idea of adaptation, of compliance with elementary rules of nature?

Neuroscience vs. Philosophy : Is free will an illusion? This question asked by our colleague, Ms Stephanie Cadot, has inspired me to ask the question above. Freedom and security, any individual...

08 August 2012 248 9 View