Philosophy

Audio edition: What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship

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How well do entrepreneurial success traits (creative rationality, initiative, courage, perseverance, and so on) map onto virtue ethics? An audio edition [mp3] of my 2009 essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], first published in Journal of Private Enterprise. Or at YouTube: Abstract: Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic […]

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | Immanuel Kant | Philosophers, Explained by Professor Stephen Hicks

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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Kant is famous for his ethic of strict duty—Categorical Imperatives—for his claim to be basing ethics upon Reason—and for also saying that “All human reason is wholly incompetent to explain this”. So: What is Kantian ethics? And why does Kant argue that it faces severe

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“Artificial Intelligence Means Entrepreneurial Education *Now*” [new Open College podcast]

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My publisher (Possibly Correct Media, out of Toronto, Canada) and I have launched a new season of the Open College podcast. My question in this episode: What will be your comparative advantage in this new era of accelerating robotics and artificial intelligence? “Artificial Intelligence Means Entrepreneurial Education Now“ Episode Number: 56 Date: October 2024 About

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Shining Path terrorism and Marxist Guzmán’s Kantian philosophy

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The Peruvian guerrilla and terrorist group Shining Path was founded by a professor of philosophy: Abimael Guzmán, who died in 2021. Shining Path is a Maoist version of Marxism, believing in the inevitability of revolution and the bloody process necessary to see it through. Shining Path is estimated to have killed 11,000 civilians along the

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“The Critical Function of Fiercely Independent Journals” published in *Reason Papers* journal

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I contributed “The Critical Function of Fiercely Independent Journals” to the 50th anniversary issue of Reason Papers. My piece included anecdotes about the academic reception of independent thinkers such as Descartes, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Rand. The issue also includes: *Several brief Retrospective pieces, by Fred Miller, Aeon Skoble, Nicholas Capaldi, Doug Rasmussen & Doug Den Uyl,

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Still learning from my students about the history of philosophy

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Reprising this series of … errr … insights from my students, collected from exams and essays over the years. I offer you: A Student History of Philosophy (Being a compilation of student research, gently edited by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University) Is philosophy a waist of time? Ethical debates have been around for a long

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