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13 Argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal en 13 Minutos

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13 Argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal en 13 Minutos por Stephen R.C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde y María Marty Original English. Portuguese. German. Argumento 1: El Capitalismo Liberal aumenta la libertad Primero, definamos nuestros términos. Por “Liberalismo” nos referimos a una red de principios que están institucionalizados. Los politólogos hablarán de ellos […]

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Søren Kierkegaard in *Explaining Postmodernism*

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In Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard defends faith by going on the offensive against reason: “Faith requires the crucifixion of reason.” For more on the context of Kierkegaard’s irrationalism and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 98 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this

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Professor Jason Hill: “Shut down the universities”

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Here is Jason D. Hill’s radical call to defund and disempower the anti-education ideologues. Hill is the author of Becoming a Cosmopolitan, which I used in my Ethics course last semester. His new-this-month book is We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People. Thanks to Robert Marks for the link to Hill’s The

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Rand in *The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts* by Women Philosophers

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I wrote this brief entry on “Self-interest in Ayn Rand”, contrasting her view to the strong nativist e.g., Christianity, Freud) and strong tabula rasa (e.g., Skinner, Foucault) positions. Source: Ruth Hagengruber and Mary Ellen Waithe, editors, The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, Paderborn University, Germany, 2018.

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Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientific culture

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Sparked by some recent conversation, here again is a striking quotation from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: “Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a technology, an art, a religion, a political system, laws, and so on. In many cases those facets of civilization have been as developed as our own.

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Moritz Schlick in *Explaining Postmodernism*

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Early in the development of analytic philosophy, Moritz Schlick claimed: “Does the external world exist?” is an unintelligible question, for “both its denial and affirmation are meaningless.” For more on the meaning of Schlick’s and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 80 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions

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Four European interviews

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Over the last months I’ve done four video discussions with younger European thinkers. To highlight their emerging channels, here are: Vincent Debierre in France: “Stephen Hicks: Postmodernism in America.” Thomas Amarque in Germany: “‘Lateral Converations’ Episode 36 with Stephen Hicks.” Ricardo Lopes in Portugal: “Postmodernism, from Rousseau to the Present.” Ignasi Boltó in Spain: “Stephen

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