Stephen Hicks

Portuguese translation of “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics”

“Ayn Rand e a ética empresarial contemporânea” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Tradução pro Matheus Pacini Revisão por Vinicius Cintra 2015 The original journal article in English is available as a PDF here, online at the Social Science Research Network, in Kindle e-book format, and in a monograph edition from Amazon.com. Here are the four

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Interview on Hegel for *Culture Today* magazine, Iran

In your book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, you portrayed Hegel as a great force of irrationalism, whose philosophy has contributed immensely to deteriorating rather than improving the human condition. The philosophy of Hegel has been on the rise in Iran in recent years. The idea behind this rising wave has

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Existe discriminação racional?

Discriminação injusta e irracional no ambiente de trabalho merece denúncia e condenação. Mas e o que dizer da discriminação racional? Considere os seguintes casos. Você é gestor do comitê responsável pela contratação do novo presidente de uma faculdade historicamente composta por estudantes negros. Então, você discrimina em favor de candidatos negros e contra candidatos não negros. Você

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Education’s “Public Choice” Dynamic

Arguments for government involvement in education are many. They include the views that many parents cannot afford to educate their children, that private philanthropy cannot make up the deficit, that too many parents don’t care enough about education, and more. At the same time, government involvement in education has risks: * Less parental control over

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