I posted a link to the shocking Biblical story of Lot’s offering his virgin daughters to a mob for sex and later having incestuous sex with them. (Link and thread: FB, X.) Many religiously-minded folks immediately offered an array of interpretations. A digest: 1. It is not a morality story at all, merely a DESCRIPTION […]
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I first knew of John Papola as producer of the hilarious video Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek – The Original Economics Rap Battle! He is also the CEO of the Emergent Order Foundation and host of the Dad Saves America podcast: “I sat down with philosopher and author Dr. Stephen Hicks to
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A course by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy. Eight lectures on our innovative business culture and the perennial challenges of entrepreneurship and leadership. What values does business pursue? What virtues of character enable successful value pursuit? How do contradictory moral theories provide conflicting advice—or demands—that require judgment about when to negotiate, when to
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A partial truth, but not relevant to justifying a free society politically. Why not? A free society respects and protects freedom in many domains: religious liberty, artistic freedom, romantic liberty, economic freedom, and so on.Take the first—religious liberty—as working example, and apply JA’s criteria, saying: “You should have religious freedom because you are fallible, inconsistent,
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Logical Fallacies (compiled by Brian McGroarty) Ad Hominem: This is the best logical fallacy, and if you disagree with me, well, you suck. Appeal to False Authority: Your logical fallacies aren’t logical fallacies at all because Einstein said so. Einstein also said that this one is better. Appeal to Emotion: See, my mom, she had
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Wisdom from a giant of the nineteenth-century — Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895): “Everybody has asked the question … ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the
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2026 is the 40th anniversary of this important publication on the foundations of epistemology. “This book is a highly original defense of realism. David Kelley argues that perception is the discrimination of objects as entities, that the awareness of these objects is direct, and that perception is a reliable foundation for empirical knowledge. Kelley’s argument
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Nobody knows what the origin of ‘Hoosier’ is. Party fun for visitors to Indiana includes recounting the many speculations on the label’s origins. This year’s football season, culminating in the football Hoosiers’ undefeated 16-0 season and a national championship was delightful and remarkable. I was a grad student back in the day when the basketball
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