Those who wear hoods and masks
How different are they, fundamentally, in outlook, tactics, and the courage to show their faces? Probably just coincidence.
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Friedrich Nietzsche in Explaining Postmodernism
Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men “no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most
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Postmodernism’s Dangerous History | Stephen Hicks and Stefan Molyneux discuss
[Update: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux’s channel in 2020.] Our full interview from June of 2018. (I was sick with a cold and hadn’t slept, but I’m happy with the content. Though maybe not, as one of the commenters says “I believe this guy is a secret Christian” while another says I’m an “uninformed, materialist, socialist
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
I was honored to be invited to be on the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, the latest and greatest reference volume in business ethics. The seven-volume production was edited by Robert W. Kolb and published this year by Sage. I also contributed three articles — on Trade, Politicization of Business,
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Will the Alt-Right make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?
[Reposting from its first publication at EveryJoe.] Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in reaction they propose that socialists embrace the philosophy of the Enlightenment.[1] President Donald
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G.W.F. Hegel in Explaining Postmodernism
G.W.F. Hegel said: “This *Good*, this *Reason*, in its most concrete form, is God. God governs the world; the actual working of his government—the carrying out of his plan—is the History of the World.” For more on the meaning of Hegel’s quotation and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 58 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
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Dr. Jane Clare Jones, the Intellectual Dark Web, and me
Dr. Jane Clare Jones seems like a nice, intelligent person, but my tweet about the ethos of the Intellectual Dark Web prompted a strongly negative response and this chain of exchanges: Dr. Jones replied: I responded, as did she: And with a helpful clarification that she also disagrees with the authoritarian Left: Me on the
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Socialism: Impractical and Immoral? Webinar video
With SFL host Elizabeth Hayes, I discuss socialism’s history, ethics, politics, and economics. The discussion was sponsored by Students for Liberty and The Atlas Society.
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