{"id":2147,"date":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/political-agency-is-conflict-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"political-agency-is-conflict-inevitable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2015\/01\/12\/political-agency-is-conflict-inevitable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Agency; is conflict inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aims of the project:<br \/>\nExplore whether human nature makes us fixate upon personal and political ideals. \u2022 Discuss the issue of political agency and how anonymity can aid it in postmodern culture.<br \/>\n\u2022 Use existentialism to assess if anxiety encourages the rise of conflict.<br \/>\n\u2022 Examine Islamic State and how they use anxiety and uncertainty as aids to their recruitment process.<br \/>\n\u2022 Finally try to assess whether conflict is inevitable in postmodern culture.<br \/>\n\u201cTo resent is already to go beyond, to move toward the possibility of an objective transformation.\u201d \u2013 Jean-Paul Sartre<br \/>\n\u201cThe most that force can achieve is acquiescence and outer conformity.\u201d \u2013 Bernard Williams<br \/>\n\u201cThroughout the ages people have wanted to \u2018improve\u2019 humanity.\u201d  \u2013 Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Simmons, 2015, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,22,123],"tags":[119,157,40],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-233","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-politics","tag-postmodernism","tag-sartre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}