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Do we know what the vacuum?

} I mean, if it is the absence of matter, are there really since we know that even interstellar space sometimes called "vacuum" contains 1atome centimeter cube?

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To put this question to Doctor Philo, we must admit that it is more philosophical than scientific.

I would even say it is bad to understand physics and good for philosophical reflection.

In fact, the physicist is one who accepts a light heart not to ask certain questions like: what is time? What is space? What the blank?

He might say, following your remark that the vacuum is that which contains 1 atom per cubic centimeter - and no more. And basta!

Where is the problem?

1 - The trouble comes from what is still talk of "empty", then we should keep this term for anything assuming it really exists. If no such anything, so why still use this term empty?

-> And why not, if a 1 centimeter cube containing 1 atom and no more, had special properties? As the vacuum energy mentioned quantum physics? Or spread of something as action at a distance?

2 - The role of the philosopher is to clarify the concepts here, and that's all.

The problem of assimilation empty nothingness. The void is the absence be. Nothingness is the negation be. Something we can not say anything - because that "nothingness is ..." is a characteristic attributed to a substrate and then give it some life.

short: if nothing was the negation of being, it is also what destroys the being, and therefore it would be closer to anti-matter but emptiness.

3 - So confused emptiness and nothingness was the cause of many misfortunes in physics. Like to believe that the nature abhors a vacuum , since there is, divine creation, it can have nothing in it that is either imperfect or which gnaw the inside (like the holes black).

4 - The only interesting debate in the history of knowledge in this area has been I think with the Epicureans, who believed that atoms and vacuum sufficient to explain the universe. The question was whether the vacuum was a substance or space devoid of matter. Because in this case, the debate was overlook nothing, and focused on the mode of existence of the void.
Here, note, philosophy does not forge new concepts, but it illuminates the issues. Already
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Is there a right to lie in politics?

Philosophers have used to being criticized for asking unnecessary questions.

So, is it of lying in politics seen as a universal practice, and therefore a necessity that the politician must use otherwise fail to exist: what's the question the right of lie?

Where there is need, there is no right to seek. Or rather, there is no difference between law and fact. Everyone knows he must lie to voters to be politically credible. That may be unfortunate, but true. Point-bar.

-> Doctor Philo does not allow for such a short throw.

Leaving aside the controversy over the potential benefits lie, he will ask the question purity in politics .

We know the argument developed by Sartre in hands dirty : one makes the revolution and why we kill in the name of purity. Yes, but the hero, Hugo, who refuses to lie and who is about to kill a revolutionary leader who wants to cynically lied to the people, will finally the killing because he was a cuckold (c 'is the right word). If purity is not in life, then it is not in action.

If it is not mostly because my action will mingle with that of others. There is not - mainly political - action that is strictly individual (except perhaps that of the hermit, but what is she to share prayer?). Since the others can take my act and transform it by their own actions, then the purity of acts disappears. Or rather, it shrinks and takes refuge in intentions. I wanted to ... well I did not want that ...

Good. The problem is that we might bless anything with it. Even the Nazi executioners wanted the good of humanity - humanity just for them that all those who were excluded not Aryan. The sincerity of choice would be it, then the only element to take into account, and a white lie, the liar would wash it his fault?

If political action is political insofar as it involves a community, then it must be something that brings people together Community referred to it.

Thesis: the political community is a community topics which have a link enabling them to live together .

- If men are in politics objects, then there is no problem to lie to them is one way as another handle, and only then pursued the goal of service.

But from the moment they are subjects (in the sense of free people to choose and to govern themselves, as in democracy), then lie to them is their decline to hear the reality on the When they are asked to act or decide.

- The problem is compounded when trying to learn how to realize the so-called "living together . It may indeed prefer solidarity to freedom - Yes, but it is also preferred his mother to justice (Camus). Between public life and private life, relationships and multiple fractures need to be finely analyzed. Doctor Philo'll do that someday ... maybe.

Staying at immediate: how to live together if the lie is to conceal the reality of others? If the lie is hiding, I saw, I speak only masks, never real men.

also remains to make a distinction outside of lies, we can also blame the politicians not to engage in its About. He who said: "I do not lie to you ..." and then who, after having promised, does not keep his promise because in the meantime he has changed his mind - for pragmatic course.

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