Ethics

Capitalism’s Modern History [Atlas Intellectuals]

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Economic historian Robert Hessen was a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Hessen´s views on key elements and controversies in Capitalism´s modern history, focusing especially on its economic individualism. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and […]

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Critical Race Theory and Medical Education [Commentary]

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Critical Race Theory and Medical Education Stephen R. C. Hicks, Department of Philosophy, Rockford University, Illinois, USA 61108 [Invited comment on J. Tsai, “Building Structural Empathy to Marshal Critical Education into Compassionate Praxis: Evaluation of a Peer-Led Critical Race Theory Course,” for Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Special Issue on “Race and Ethnicity in

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Ayn Rand, “What is Capitalism?” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Ayn Rand´s controversial “What is Capitalism?” In this 1965 essay, first published in The Objectivist Newsletter and later in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand presents her philosophical and especially moral argument for capitalism. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and

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Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas

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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020. (Original English.) Stephen R. C. Hicks es Profesor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Rockford. Su libro más reciente es Explicando el Postmodernismo: Escepticismo y Socialismo Desde Rousseau a Foucault (Ockham’s Razor, 2011). Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada.

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The Real Scrooge [Open College transcripts]

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We’re posting the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Most are available only to subscribers, but here for the holiday season is the thirtieth, on Scrooge’s hero’s journey: To speak of pride, friendship, liberality, and an overarching wisdom about how they all contribute to a fully self-realized life—all of that is to make Dickens’s Scrooge

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