This blog post calmly examines the journey of crude oil from deep underground, transformed through the refining process into gas and fuel, becoming the energy that powers modern society. The morning sun peeks out, signaling the start of the day. You turn on the lights, take a warm shower, then heat up soup on the gas stove for breakfast. Changing into clean clothes and stepping outside...
This blog post examines the physical principles through which nuclear fission and fusion release immense energy, and outlines the process by which this energy is converted into the destructive power of atomic and hydrogen bombs within a historical scientific context. The nuclear issue is a hot potato for the international community and is considered one of the challenges requiring joint...
This blog post focuses on human consumption and savings behavior as seen through behavioral economics, examining the psychological mechanisms and core concepts behind why we fail to stick to the optimal plans we set for ourselves. Economic theory begins with attempts to predict the behavior of economic agents, but in reality, people’s observed behavior often diverges from theoretical...
This blog post examines how the narrator’s method of intervening in a story affects the reader’s process of perceiving truth. We will explore together how the narrator’s position, information, and degree of involvement alter the direction of the narrative. Reading a novel means listening to the voice of someone telling a story. We call the entity that narrates events...
This blog post examines whose interests a modern company with separated ownership and control should center on. We explore the meaning of the corporate system as proposed by Burley and its implications today, particularly at the point where the perspectives of shareholders, managers, and the community collide. In today’s textbook view, the concept of ‘separation of ownership and...
In this blog post, we will examine the nature of violence operating in the establishment and preservation of law, focusing on the discussions of Benjamin and Derrida, and explore the fundamental tension between law and violence. Benjamin sought to reveal that violence intervenes in the birth and constitution of all legitimate power, operating not only through prohibition and punishment but...
This blog post examines how voters’ ideological leanings influence the strategic manipulation decisions of those in power, analyzing under what conditions democracy begins its path toward regression. The erosion of democratic values by elected politicians using legal procedures constitutes a crisis for democracy as severe as a sudden, violent coup. In modern political processes...
This blog post explores the essence of law by comparing three theoretical perspectives: viewing law as the institutionalization of custom, understanding it as a product of social structure, or interpreting it as the result of conflict and domination. Discussions on the essence of law have long been ongoing. Among the oldest views is the custom theory, which seeks to grasp the essence of...
This blog post delves deeply into how melancholy preserves loss not as mere absence but as a living emotion, and what significance this dreamlike force holds for modern subjectivity and world perception. Melancholy, one of the key critical concepts in modern literature, originates from an ancient Greek medical term meaning ‘black bile’. At the time, black bile was understood as the cause...
This blog post examines whether artificial intelligence and robots can be subjects of moral rights or responsibilities even without emotions, exploring the limitations of human-centered ethics and new standards. AlphaGo’s defeat of the world’s top human Go player fundamentally challenged the privileged position humans have held in the natural world, becoming a catalyst that...