Image of the letter and a transcription below: Fallowfield, Manor Road, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England. April 28th, 1970 Dear Professor Aron, Many thanks for your letter of April 15th. I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking. I have translated some of their German sentences
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Episode 54 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Marx and Engels claimed their communism was “scientific socialism.” What do they mean by “scientific”? Were they sincere, or does their apparent logic cover for an essentially religious vision? Title: Socialism: Scientific or Religious?Date: September 2021Transcript: Forthcoming All audio versions of the podcast
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‘Artist Jens Haaning received $84,000 to incorporate into a piece. When the Kunsten museum took the delivery, they found two empty frames with a new title: “Take the Money And Run.” ‘“The work of art is that I took their money,” Haaning told broadcaster DR. ‘The museum wants its money back, but Haaning is so
Art scam, postmodern version Read More »
My long-form conversation with Marsha Enright, President of The Great Connections. A transcription is forthcoming.
Liberal Education? What is it and what is it good for? Read More »
I appreciate very much this comment from David Sabo, in response to my conversation with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. My job is to get students up to speed on the issues, the major arguments and counter-arguments, and so to put them in a position to make informed judgments for themselves. And while
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I’m presenting this talk at the IX Zjazd Towarzystwa Pedagogiki Filozoficznej/ 9th Congress of Philosophy of Education Society of Poland, hosted at Jagiellonian. The full program is here.
Keynote lecture, Jagiellonian University conference Read More »
Here’s an audiobook version of my essay, “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.” Getting past the standard moral-versus-practical dichotomy — on the left, “practical” success traits for entrepreneurial business; on the right, “moral” character traits. The original text version of “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” is here at my site or here
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