With history is repeating itself these months, a quotation from 1921: “Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth … then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and
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Early modern philosopher Francis Bacon opens his “Of Marriage and Single Life” essay this way: “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried
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Indeed: “Many a person remains in the same town, street, or house from January to December, without a wish or thought tending towards removal, who, if confined to that same place by the mandate of authority, would find the imprisonment absolutely intolerable.” Source: Principles of Political Economy. Robson, J. M., ed. Books I-II. Indianapolis: Liberty
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Evergreen graduate Benjamin Boyce’s insider documentary: “The Compete Evergreen Story.” Shaun Cammack at Heterodox Academy: “When race is understood as both the foundation of the self and the determinant of cognitive authority, it follows that there is simply no such thing as a dyadic interaction. Interaction between people of different races is understood as inherently intercollective.
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Jennifer Grossman invited contemporary artist Michael Newberry and me to talk about great art. Topics: * Rembrandt’s mesmerizing of the young Newberry. * The sublime in Burke and Kant. * Aristotle’s grounding of art and Rand’s updating. * Icarus Landing (2001). * Envy and destruction in some strains of modern and postmodern art. * The
Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The second course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert
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Saturday at noon Central. Sign up here: https://thinkspot.com/event_signup?event=MJuLoQ. Questions posted so far: SLAVERY 1. [T]he current reparations demands from more organized BLM representatives: what are your thoughts on the current reparations debate? Do you foresee radical forms or lesser forms of it manifesting in policy? Are you in agreement with certain forms of it? Do
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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the thirteenth: OC13: Postmodernism’s Moral *Low* Ground. “Our classic rules are as follows: Approach discussion with a spirit of benevolence, give people the initial benefit of the doubt, make one’s goal the mutual advancement of understanding, hear out both or all sides
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