Imagine the Classified Ads section of a publication. Buyers and sellers place advertisements for violins, cars, horses, services, furniture, clothing, and so on. The publisher organizes the ads into classifications such as Auto, Clothing, Furniture, Musical Instruments, Services, etc. But there are always a few ads that don’t fit the existing classification scheme, e.g., “For […]
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[This is a Portuguese translation of “Will the Real Scrooge Please Stand Up?, first published in The Good Life.] Todos nós sabemos da história de Ebenezer Scrooge, certo? A obra Um Conto de Natal de Charles Dickens gerou uma variedade espantosa de interpretações, e como a maioria dos contos, as interpretações frequentemente nos dizem muito
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[Re-pinning for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood is a
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Entrepreneurial Education conference Sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Rockford University, Illinois Call for Papers The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship will be hosting a conference at Rockford University, March 13-14, 2016, on Entrepreneurial Education. On the Entrepreneurial side of the phrase: We live in entrepreneurial times. From the work demand side, there
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. All files are PDFs. Thomas Aquinas, “Whether it is lawful to kill sinners?” and “Whether heretics ought to be tolerated?” From Summa Theologica (1265-1274). Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946). Martin Luther, excerpts from The
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A vida sexual da nação está em perigo. Pesquisas mostram insatisfação geral quando o assunto é sexo. A falha de mercado em toda parte. Muitos homens reclamam de poucas relações sexuais e muitas mulheres desaprovam os olhares e cantadas constantes. Outros homens estão insatisfeitos com as opções disponíveis em sua região e outras mulheres estão
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How I Write by Bertrand Russell I cannot pretend to know how writing ought to be done, or what a wise critic would advise me to do with a view to improving my own writing. The most that I can do is to relate some things about my own attempts. Until I was twenty-one, I
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Worth reading: David Ramsay Steele’s now-classic article on the intellectual origins and practical evolution of fascism — “The Mystery of Fascism.” “From 1912 to 1914, Mussolini was the Che Guevara of his day, a living saint of leftism. Handsome, courageous, charismatic, an erudite Marxist, a riveting speaker and writer, a dedicated class warrior to the
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