Monday, December 14, 2009

What Do You Do After An Internal Creampie

Live from Copenhagen ...


Living in Lund is both through the Danish capital, and these days he might not have escaped you that some international summit should be quite worried it seems, whether protests or strictly diplomatic tensions between interest groups, developing countries, European Union, China and the United States in particular.


I just missed the violent confrontation between police and protesters by attending Saturday in the collective movement. Vandals broke into the crowd and sprang unexpectedly to demolish some unfortunate windows, it seems, before the police decide to arrest all those who attended, with 968 people arrested including, if I think the newspaper Le Monde . This is called a warm atmosphere.


Slogans are sometimes very different in Denmark, for example one of them was " Antikapitalist !" instead of "anti-capitalism !", which shows the profound diversity of political ideas around the world. A good language experience anyway.


just hope that the summit does not end in apathy, in developing countries to withdraw from the negotiations as a sign of protest, given the current positions taken in respect of them to finance the next three years-only. Expect the exchange, Not the status quo.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Inspecrtion Report Template

Plea for a real semesters in France.


To observe the functioning university in Sweden, a striking difference lies in the semesters, not a technical term referring to a division of the academic year in two years as we conceive spontaneously in France but an organization based on a unit semester, the semester is roughly half a normal year.


Let things to be clear. There is still some time before 1998, and negotiations of the Bologna process, no common unit of measurement exist in terms of European higher education. Awarded a Master of Business Law, Mr. Smith could therefore hardly be exported to another country, or at least less easily than in a harmonized system. Yet it is precisely the intention of the rulers in the late 1990s: it wants a European harmonization, expressed in ECTS-credits and European-based unit semester, hoping to develop mobility and Europeanization studies.


12 years later, I notice especially in France the introduction of the system is done wrong. For better or worse without doubt is preserved perhaps the problem is ours and which adorns our diplomas of a certain prestige in the international collective imagination, but we will certainly cons flexibility practice seems highly desirable . Specifically, when a student signs his matriculation, he enlisted for one year. This seems absurd in a system where the unit is the semester, it would, for the sake of consistency, commitment for one semester. Here students enroll in Sweden where they want. For example, a semester studying English and a semester of English, then they decide to travel a bit before taking a semester of English a few months later, their brief freedom is real. Consider also the resounding failure rate in first year, he would probably very beneficial to provide an absolute shift and simple as possible. In the land of pastry sophisticated studies are not immune to the complexity, with in turn increased pressure on students shoulders. I personally considered very differently my studies if I had the opportunity each semester to do something different, without sacrificing the continuity of my curriculum. But I went head to the grindstone, as most of us ...


A salute, then, that kind of argument . And to think in terms of expatriation university.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Nicotine Hallucinatins

Scandinavian Realism.


It seems to me quite significant that the legal realist school will be widely developed in Sweden. For those who would not see what he is talking about, this is a philosophical approach law which is to enjoy a certain reality, as opposed to a positivist approach. The latter would lead instead to consider a normative system as such, quite detached from coherent third contingencies, as Kelsen has intensively addressed. The realistic approach, as constructed by the sages of Uppsala, is based on the social, and school is often called social realism. The idea is that substance must be built to the right and the object, the company owning the legal truth if you will. Thus, if society believes collectively that such a rule is obsolete, since when it should not exist. Lawyers should strive in this direction to correspond to the collective will, and not get lost in the beauty of ethereal legal systems.


A current well known and different from these two there is the natural law. In this design, sometimes called "droitdelhommiste", it also seeks to deny legal positivism hardcore posing certain values as fundamental and unalterable. Thus, a legal system inspired Nazi would be acceptable in terms of a logical positivist, who accepts herself, while it would be unacceptable in a system which would have placed first sight of intangible rights supreme. This design also works around a problem inherent in social realism: it subtracts values too contingent, likely to change overnight the whim of the masses, protecting them sustainably. But this quality is also questionable, since we can always discuss endlessly the legitimacy and coherence to want to characterize a particular right as fundamental.


Amidst these interminable debates, I'm responsible for writing a dissertation on Lundstedt and his theory in light Kant and Rawls, two other major thinkers for anyone interested in political philosophy. Certainly I will discuss my findings on this blog, in case it could interest some soul in perdition conceptual.

Incidentally, the playboy pictures of none other than himself Hagerstrom, spiritual father of Scandinavian realism.