TAS CEO Jennifer Grossman will interview me on Racism/Black Lives Matter/Collectivism and Covid-19/Quarantine/Responsibility issues. Sign up via here.
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Nietzsche vs. Rand Join me in this 3-session course “Nietzsche vs. Rand on Altruism and Egoism,” co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and different
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Foucault’s grandchildren. The Enlightenment created a magnificent civilization, yet three generations of postmodernism have bred a sub-culture of deniers—of facts, objectivity, truth, justice, and progress—and who combine that with vicious rhetoric and physical violence. Such activists’ enemy is reality, so they want and need to shut down anyone who persistently raises facts. Psychologically, such activists
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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the first: OC1: Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters: “To say that Free Speech *Is* Free Thought *Is* Free Action is a rhetorical overstatement, but its purpose is to emphasize the integration of thought, speech, and action. …” Audio versions of
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Use the adversity test: “In everyday life, if people intend to reach a true assessment of someone, to decide whether he is bad or good, they do not base the investigation on those periods of his life when he was untroubled by external circumstances; they look at how he behaved when he was afflicted by
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Source: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We, pages 168-169. The character D-503 is talking to I-330 about the irrepressibility of the human spirit. See also “Zamyatin: Children as bold philosophers.”
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Via Ryerson’s Centre for Free Expression: “Something very wrong has happened at the University of Alberta. A professor has been fired from part of her academic job for views on sex and gender that break with current orthodoxy. “In late March, Kathleen Lowrey … was asked to resign … on the basis that one or
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A long form conversation with host Daxton Page. Topics: The lesson of the high-school group project. The Nazis and Nietzsche. Freud, Marx, and the Critical Theory of Marcuse. Kant and postmodernism. Was Kant an Enlightenment thinker? The importance of Rousseau. Individualism and Collectivism. My current book project. Is philosophy practical?
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