On Buddhism: A Buddhist walks up to a hotdog stand and says, Make me one with everything. The Buddhist pays the vendor and asks for change. The vendor says, Change comes from within. A joke about family path dependence, or about being born with a telos, or about heavy-handed parenting: A mother is with her […]
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I was struck by this reflection on the history of philosophy, made by Adolf Hitler, who read voraciously when young and especially during his prison time in the 1920s: “In the Great Hall of the Linz Library are the busts of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the greatest of our thinkers, in comparison with whom the
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I’m happy to announce that a Ukrainian translation of my Nietzsche and the Nazis is forthcoming. The translating work is done, and the publisher is the press at Mariupol State University. More information forthcoming. Thanks to everyone involved in making this project happen!
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Will Altman: “It is perfectly natural to feel loyalty to the thinker who set you to thinking, to the writer whose writings first made you a careful and devoted reader, and whose example inspired your own way of life as a philosopher.” Altman’s words appear in the concluding chapter of his book on Martin Heidegger,
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My essay “Virtue, Entrepreneurial Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility” has been published in Virtue in Entrepreneurship, edited by Nils Karlson, Mikolaj Norek, and Karl Wennberg (Stockholm: Ratio Institute, 2015). Other contributors include Deirdre McCloskey, Eugene Heath, Art Carden, Lynette Osiemo, Robert Gemmel, David Lipka, Elina Fergin, and Rasmus Nykvist. The book is available in Sweden
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[I wrote the following in 1999 in response to several people who wrote to me with objections to my and others’ use of The Will to Power in interpreting Nietzsche.] Dear [ ]: Every word in The Will to Power was written by Nietzsche in his notebooks of 1883-1888. Some of the notes were his
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Some parts of the world really are environmental Hells. They are dirty and depleted, making them unhealthy and economically unsustainable. We can argue about the severity of various places’ problems, but I want to focus on another aspect of the debate: determining accurately the causes of the degradation so we can
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A commentator at my site objects to my discussion of Existentialism and the meaning of life: “In all honesty this is just a bunch of JibJab with really no actual true meaning funny how people waste years and thousands studying this irrelevant b***** go out side be outdoors live a little bit” The Urban Dictionary
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