Here’s a conversation I’ve had many times over the years with colleagues in business ethics and related fields. I’m at, say, a conference and someone will profess disgust at something a large corporation has done: Colleague: Look at this bad thing that Microsoft/ Walmart/Facebook/Amazon did. Corporations have way too much power in this country. Me: […]
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Marcus Herz was Immanuel Kant’s friend, a former student, and a well-educated man — he qualified as a physician and eventually became a professor of philosophy. Yet, “when Kant gave the MS. of the Critique to his friend Herz, a man much versed in speculation, Herz returned it half read, saying he feared insanity if
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One solution to an age-old problem: Then the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him by sleeping with another man, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her
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[A translation by Matheus Pacini and Vinicius Cintra into Portuguese of my “Who Is Really Serious About Monopolies?”] Levante o tópico dos monopólios, e a discussão resultante rapidamente evidenciará deficiências ideológicas. Um colega com quem lecionei nas áreas de negócios e capitalismo enviou-me, de forma entusiasmada, esse artigo escrito por Paul Krugman, um economista vencedor
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The comic genius of Aristophanes, in which “Socrates” the sacrilegious philosopher explains to the not-too-bright Strepsiades where rain and thunder come from. Potty humor ensues. Socrates: That is because these are the only goddesses; all the rest are pure myth. Strepsiades: But by the Earth! is our father, Zeus, the Olympian, not a god? Socrates: Zeus!
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Two liberty-oriented Nobel-Prize winners are suspicious. Friedrich Hayek on nationalism as a halfway-house collectivism: “… it is this nationalistic bias which frequently provides the bridge from conservatism to collectivism: to think in terms of ‘our’ industry or resource is only a short step away from demanding that these national assets be directed in the national
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A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Should Christians be socialists, and was C.S. Lewis a socialist? // Mere Christianity‘s themes // Liberal-libertarian principles — free-market economics and property rights, competence to run your own life, self-responsibility, self-respect and dignity for all, universalism
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Professional philosophers’ responses to the book. Nine reviews in total — six very positive, two overall positive, and one mixed. * Professor Curtis Hancock in The Review of Metaphysics (and can be read online here). * Professor Steven M. Sanders in Reason Papers. * Professor Gary Jason in Liberty (or PDF here.) * Dr. David
Ph.D. philosophers review *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »