This week I will be in lovely Buenos Aires to give a series of talks. I’ll be lecturing more formally at ESEADE university on themes out of my Nietzsche and the Nazis. My specific topic is “Did the Nazis Use or Abuse Nietzsche’s Philosophy?” (A Spanish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis may be in […]
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“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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In English, here is Magdalena Wędzińska’s review [pdf] of the Polish edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The review is forthcoming in Polish in Forum Oświatowe, a leading Polish education periodical. Here is more information about other editions and translations of Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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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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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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Note to self: “Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour, the whole of everyman’s attention
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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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From a post by Lant Pritchett at the World Bank site: “In the early 20th century Helen Todd, a factory inspector in Chicago, interviewed 500 children working in factories, often in dangerous and unpleasant conditions. She asked children the question: ‘If your father had a good job and you didn’t have to work, which would
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