Human Nature

Tara Smith, “Objective Law” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this week of the self-paced course on Objectivity we feature Tara Smith’s “Objective Law”. Smith (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas and author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Our Executive Summary gives eight key points from Smith’s 13-page article. The full course

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Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery: Was slavery economically negative, not only for the slaves but the slaveowners and/or slave societies in general? Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. A Fine coverage in Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss”. Jeffrey

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Frederick Douglass, “To My Old Master” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this week of the Atlas Intellectualls course on Slavery we cover Frederick Douglass’s “To My Old Master.” Douglass had escaped slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement by the time he wrote this 1848 public letter to Thomas Auld—on the anniversary of his escape. Douglass describes his experiences as a slave, his

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William Wilberforce on the Abolition of Slave Trade [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we cover the great William Wilberforce on the Abolition of Slave Trade. Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British statesman, Anglican, and the leading force behind the 1807 abolition of the slave trade and the 1833 abolition of slavery in Great Britain. “The Slave Trade is the

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