My short article introducing business ethics, “The Best Work of the Best Minds,” has been republished as a Kindle e-publication and as an Audible audio edition narrated by Scott A. Smith. It was originally published in the IOS Journal. More of my publications in business ethics are at my Business Ethics page.
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As with sex and money — and most of the important matters in life — many silly things are said about power. Perhaps the granddaddy of those silly things is the oft-quoted phrase, Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is an important truth that Lord Acton’s phrase tries to capture. But taken literally
Sex scandals in Philosophy departments: * Miami’s Colin McGinn resigned. * Colorado’s Graeme Forbes resigned. * Yale’s Thomas Pogge is under serious investigation (thanks to Alex Tabarrok for the link). We might expect philosophers — especially those who specialize in ethics — to be more principled than the average. So Eric Schwitzgebel’s question is an
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[This is a Portuguese translation of Stephen Hicks’s “How to Tame Religious Terrorists”, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Derrotar um inimigo como o Islã politizado é uma batalha de múltiplas frentes — policial, militar, diplomática, cultural e filosófica. Toda luta começa com desavenças locais e de curto prazo. Entretanto, conflitos generalizados de longa duração são
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A new entry in the ongoing contest to find the longest sentences written in the history of philosophy. Submitted by Ken Brown, a 239-word self-reflective monster from G. E. Moore’s “A Defence of Common Sense”: ‘In other words what (2) asserts is only (what seems an obvious enough truism) that each of us (meaning by
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At the end of this academic year, I crunched some numbers from my gradesheets for the last three years. I then focused on the high and low ends of the grade distribution: * An almost-exact equal numbers of males and females received A or A- grades. * Of the 26 students who received F grades,
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[This is a Portuguese translation of Part 1 of the Theist vs. Atheist debate series between Stephen R.C. Hicks and John C. Wright, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Vale a pena discutir religião? Por Stephen Hicks Tradução e Revisão de Matheus Pacini Minha resposta é: certamente, vale a pena discutir sobre religião. Todos nós
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Rounds one and two, I hope, of a good discussion of Rand’s philosophical fiction. Sarah Skwire: “Ayn Rand, John Steinbeck, and Fiction with a ‘Message’: The Problems with Didactic Fiction.” Onkar Ghate: “Is Ayn Rand a Writer of Didactic Fiction?” One interesting sub-issue to me arises from the fact that many readers do experience Rand’s
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