Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al español por Fermín Elizalde. Artículo original en inglés y Kindle. Introducción: los negocios y la sociedad libre Los defensores de la sociedad libre piensan en los negocios como una parte integral de la sociedad dinámica y progresista que defienden. En Occidente, el surgimiento de una cultura hospitalaria para los […]
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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 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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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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“The idea that America is fundamentally flawed because some people have a [racist] problem in their minds, that’s a recipe to keep you in poverty and unhappiness for the rest of your life,” said Juan Saldivar, a father of a Southlake student, to explain his opposition to restructuring Southlake schools around ‘systemic racism.’ “My parents
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) is a landmark decision about affirmative action decided in 1978 by the US Supreme Court. It upheld the lower court’s affirming that Allan Bakke should be admitted to UCD’s medical school and that racial quotas were unconstitutional but also upheld affirmative action, allowing race
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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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