Following up on two posts on the achievements of modern anatomy (“The Knife Man” and “Anatomy and Philosophy”), here is St. Augustine (354-430) disapproving of the practice: “With a cruel zeal for science, some medical men, who are called anatomists, have dissected the bodies of the dead, and sometimes even of sick persons who have […]
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Our culture seems intent upon reviving the wisdom of those other ancient Greek philosophers: Mediocrates, Toiletes, and Idiocratus.
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Erik Torenberg is co-founder of Village Global, an early-stage venture capital fund backed by the founders of Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other leading companies. He hosts a podcast whose guests have ranged from Bill Gates to Tyler Cowen to Terry Gross to Deirdre McCloskey. In our discussion, we cover the content and impact of postmodern
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Professor Nazi Azad is working on a translation into Urdu of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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Bradford Harris is a Ph.D. from Stanford University in History of Science and Technology. Our 59-minute conversation ranges over these topics: Locations: everywhere podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. YouTube link follows:
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What’s the ethics of driving up the price of GameStop stock?
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In response to the question: What would you say to young social justice warriors? Excerpted from this full interview at the Spanish Libertarian’s site on why communism is “cool” but Nazism isn’t, externalities of capitalism, whether postmodernism is dangerous, the rise of Jordan Peterson, the achievements of Western civilization, what is the philosophy of capitalism,
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[I’m teaching biomedical ethics this semester and so revisiting some posts on innovation and progress.] Current infant mortality rates are less than half of one percent, and it is awful for parents who lose a child. But in the 1700s, infant mortality rates were over 50%. I came across this in Robert K. Massie’s Catherine
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