New transcription: Dr. William Kline spoke at Rockford University on business ethics. My follow-up interview with him on the main points of his talk are below in video and transcribed-text form: Interview with William Kline, Ph.D., on Business Ethics Interview conducted at Rockford College by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Hicks: […]
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Você já ouviu a afirmação: “a desregulamentação causou a crise financeira”. Nos anos que antecederam a 2008, diz a história, maus economistas convenceram maus políticos a desregularem os setores bancário e financeiro da economia, e maus capitalistas desfrutaram de uma orgia de ganância que fez com que o sistema enlouquecesse. Os prêmios Nobel Joseph Stiglitz
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My page devoted to posts and essays in Intellectual History has been updated to include recent posts: * Unamuno on Kant on God in the first two Critiques. * Heine versus Nietzsche on obscurantism in philosophy. * Should We Thank Coffee for Modern Civilization? * Burckhardt quotation on the birth of individualism in the Italian
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Intelligence is a human being’s most important asset. “One sign of this is the amount of time we spend educating our young. For some species, such as squirrels and hawks, the learning necessary to become a full adult is acquired in a matter of months. For more
Esquizofrênico, adjetivo: de, relacionado a, ou caracterizado pela coexistência de elementos incompatíveis ou antagônicos. Vamos falar sobre uma razão pela qual a política nos torna um pouco loucos — sua mistura incoerente de leis e regulamentações. (Aviso: metáfora exagerada à frente) Não somente a mão esquerda com frequência não sabe o que a direita está fazendo:
A política esquizofrênica — sexo, saúde, religião, dinheiro e outras coisas importantes Read More »
The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Honestly now: Do you have what it takes? We all like to think we’re smarter than average, but the math is cruel. Half of us are below median intelligence, and some of us are considerably lower. So why should we think that freedom is a good policy for everyone?
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Syriza, a far-left party with many Marxists, won the 2015 Greek election. They replace New Democracy, a middle-of-the-road party that failed to solve Greece’s economic woes. Of course the left-Marxism of Syriza will also fail to solve those woes and will make them worse. When that happens, to whom will the Greeks turn next? Note
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To accompany my Philosophy of Education course lectures on video, here are readings from key philosophers. Idealism: Plato (the Allegory of the Cave from Republic) and Immanuel Kant (from On Education). Realism: Aristotle (from Politics) and John Locke (from Some Thoughts concerning Education). Pragmatism: John Dewey (from Democracy and Education). Behaviorism: B. F. Skinner (from
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