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Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University, Poland
I’m happy to announce I’m on my way to Kraków to be in residence at the university as visiting professor. I’ll each a course on Entrepreneurial Education and deliver a keynote lecture at this international conference on Philosophy of Education. 1364 — that was Jagiellonian University’s founding year, making it one of the ancient universities
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Boydstun on Dewey on Kant and German aggression
Why did World War I happen? Many causal factors, and philosophy was an important one. Stephen Boydstun nicely summarizes and comments on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression. (Posted at Irfan Khawaja’s site.) See also my shorter 2015 post John Dewey on Kant and the Causes of World War I.
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Immanuel Kant on faith [from Explaining Postmodernism]
“I had to deny knowledge,” wrote Kant in the Preface to the first Critique, “in order to make room for faith.” For more on the meaning and implications of Immanuel Kant’s contributions to postmodernism, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault (pp. 97-98). Information about other editions and translations of Explaining Postmodernism is
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Media bias, Biden vaccine mandates, atheist chaplains, homeschooling’s rise (Current Events)
Yesterday, Dr. Richard Salsman and I discussed those four topics at the monthly Current Events program hosted by TAS’s CEO Jennifer Grossman. Here’s a link to the David Rozado, et al., paper I discuss: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08944393211031452?journalCode=ssce
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, *The Communist Manifesto* [Atlas University course]
This week in the A.U. course on Socialism we cover Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marx, who devised the ideology of communism, proclaims the inevitable self-destruction of capitalism due to its internal contradictions and urges communists to lead the world to a classless society. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism. Other Waterfall
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Cost of food across three generations [Progress data]
My parents’ generation spent 20% of their income on food. My kids’ generation spends 10% of their income on food.
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ENCROACHING DARKNESS, featuring Stephen Hicks, James Lindsay, & Michael O’Fallon
Does politics drive philosophy, or does philosophy drive politics? In the previous episode of Sovereign Nations’s Changing Tides, “The Seeds of Collectivism,” James Lindsay, Stephen Hicks and Michael O’Fallon began with the metaphysical collectivist thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. They then examined Hegel and Kant, and concluded with Dr. Hicks’s assertion that if it weren’t for the success
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